Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!atha!lyndon
From: lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Position in file after open?
Message-ID: <1162@atha.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 14 Oct 89 19:19:18 GMT
Organization: Athabasca University
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Can someone enlighten me as to what the ANSI F77 spec has to say
about where a file pointer sits immediately after an open?
We have looked at the documentation for a number of f77 compilers --
each one seems to have it's own idea of where to position the pointer.
Assuming the following code fragment, what does the ANSI standard
say about positioning the file pointer? (tmedata is an existing file
with data in it.)

	program main
	.
	.
	open(unit = 10, file = 'tmedata')
	.
	.
	.

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Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
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