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From: sjc@key.COM (Steve Correll)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: File handling in Fortran 77
Message-ID: <2144@key.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 90 04:04:10 GMT
References: <46016@masscomp.ccur.com> <1990Sep12.215551.16135@agate.berkeley.edu> <271@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Organization: Key Computer Labs, Fremont, CA
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In article <271@cadlab.sublink.ORG>, staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli) writes:
> Even TODAY, the IBM XL Fortran compiler on their new RISC-6000 
> workstation OPEN's the file at end...What does Fortran-90 say?

Fortran 90 permits you to specify POSITION='REWIND', POSITION='APPEND', or
POSITION='ASIS' in the OPEN statement. The latter leaves the file position
unchanged if the file exists and was already connected.
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