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From: staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: File handling in Fortran 77
Message-ID: <271@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Date: 14 Sep 90 07:17:03 GMT
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jerry@violet.berkeley.edu (Jerry Berkman) writes:
	...
>Even several years later, I heard of other system who opened files
>at their end.
	...
Even TODAY, the IBM XL Fortran compiler on their new RISC-6000 
workstation OPEN's the file at end.  It does have an escape clause,
though - if the first operation right after an OPEN is a READ, then
an "implicit" rewind is performed.  However, OPEN then WRITE will
"append" the record, while on most other systems the first record
is being over-written.  Pity the standard could not be more rigid on
this point, it would help portability.  What does Fortran-90 say?

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