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From: blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854")
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Subject: Re: Binary files on 4D machines
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Date: 17 Aug 90 12:31:58 GMT
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    The mail turn around time seems to be kind of long.  My last message
was sent out before I recieved your last message.
    I tried what you said in one of MY programs and it seems to work for
me.  Thanks!  The release notes are not clear at all on what you need to
do, if they had had one sample line for the open statement it would have
been easier.  I don't know why the guy here was/is having a problem with
the binary files.  He talked to the hot line and tried everything they
said but it only half worked.
    If the only thing I had to change was the FORM option on the open
that would be ok.  But, having to put in direct access (which doesn't
make any sense when you think about it), recl=1, FORM='unformatted', and
compile it with a -old_rl option is too much work.  Especially when
the documentation is poor.  Can you get the "FORM='SYSTEM'" in the
3.3.1 release or maybe a 3.3.1.1 or what ever problem fix release?
   Thanks again.

(If the documentation is poor, RTFM wont help)
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	Brent L. Bates
	NASA-Langley Research Center
	M.S. 361
	Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
	(804) 864-2854
	E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov