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From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Position in file after open?
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Date: 20 Oct 89 01:53:33 GMT
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In article <1177@atha.AthabascaU.CA> lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
>In article <126396@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) writes:
>>As is moderately well known, this is a "feature" of the '77 standard.
>>While it is "obvious" that a freshly opened file should be positioned
>>at the start, there is a legend that at least one popular compiler
>>positions to the end of file just to prove to customers how bad the
>>standard is ...
>
>From IBM's _VS FORTRAN Application Programming: Language Reference_:
>
>	"After a sucessful open ... the file is not repositioned
>	 at the beginning"
>
>So much for legend :-)

No the question of _why_ is addressed by the legend. 

>
>The f77 compiler from the UNIX SVR3.1 porting base explicitly
>positions

The story is that Stu Feldman, author of the "portable unix f77" did
this explicitly. Sensible vendors fix this.

>type of behavior?

One hopes not ... but where one does ... others are sure to follow.
Anyone have other VS languages manuals handy ?


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