Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!rutgers!deejay!gear!cadlab!staff From: staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: record length for direct access files Message-ID: <277@cadlab.sublink.ORG> Date: 25 Sep 90 07:16:34 GMT References: Organization: CAD.LAB, Bologna, Italia Lines: 24 mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes: ... >Is this in the current draft? I can't believe that after all the >committee's mouthing about portability, they have let this one slip >through. No, on second thought, I believe it entirely.... AAARGH! It's really incredible, though believable... and it reinforces my impression that they were out to create a new, arguably beautiful language, rather than to actually help people who program in *FORTRAN*, for Pete's sake. >Not only do they give the vendors more license for incompatible Not 'more', just as much as right now. Still hateful, though. > Silicon Graphics, Sun, Stardent all use RECL=words > IBM RS/6000 uses RECL=bytes Funny! OUR Sun machines use RECL in bytes, as do HP, Olivetti, and OS/2. Dec and Sony use (long)words [do all MIPS boxes?]. -- Alex Martelli - CAD.LAB s.p.a., v. Stalingrado 45, Bologna, Italia Email: (work:) staff@cadlab.sublink.org, (home:) alex@am.sublink.org Phone: (work:) ++39 (51) 371099, (home:) ++39 (51) 250434; Fax: ++39 (51) 366964 (work only; any time of day or night).