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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Subject: Re: File handling in Fortran 77
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Date: 29 Aug 90 17:32:35 GMT
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In article <46016@masscomp.ccur.com> andyo@masscomp.UUCP (Andy Oram) writes:
>Not officially.  I can't think of any circumstances where you'd see
>differences -- a record is a record is a record, and that's the granularity
>with which FORTRAN I/O operates.  (For instance, you can't change one part of
>an existing record and leave another part intact.)
>
This has always bothered me. A file is just a sequence of it, usually
organized as bytes - a text file must be in "bytes".

So how, in standard Fortran, do you dothe exact analog of the most primitive
file operations - those expressed in C as flavors of get, put, and seek.
It HAS to be possible to do this, as C requires it.

Doug MCDonald