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From: rff@inf.rl.ac.uk (Ronald Fowler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: record length for direct access files
Message-ID: <10269@nfs4.rl.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Sep 90 19:53:50 GMT
References: <MCCALPIN.90Sep24090852@pereland.cms.udel.edu> <277@cadlab.sublink.ORG> <MCCALPIN.90Sep26090619@pereland.cms.udel.edu>
Reply-To: rff@inf.rl.ac.uk (Ronald Fowler)
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In article <MCCALPIN.90Sep26090619@pereland.cms.udel.edu> mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes:
>There are two separate issues that I have been working with:
>
>	(1) RECL=words vs RECL=bytes
>	(2) control words in unformatted sequential files
>
And goes on to say that Stardent has RECL=words and (control words)=words.

Since Stardent is a recent merger, I wouldn't be surprised if they have
two "standards", since on our machine (a GS2000, was a Stellar) we seem
to have RECL=bytes and (control words)=bytes.