Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV!blbates From: blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854") Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: 'binary' files Message-ID: <8910251517.AA07293@aero4.larc.nasa.gov> Date: 25 Oct 89 12:17:46 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 15 I used a 4D/20, Personal Iris and with form='binary' I didn't get any errors. The compiler took 'binary' to mean the same as 'unformatted'. I wish it had given me an error, that would have made it easier to find out what the problems was. What type of 4D were you using? Thanks for the info, up till this point I hadn't see any use for unformatted files. -- Brent L. Bates NASA-Langley Research Center M.S. 294 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 (804) 864-2854 E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov