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Subject: Re: File handling in Fortran 77
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Date: 3 Oct 90 05:25:20 GMT
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In article <2144@key.COM> sjc@key.COM (Steve Correll) writes:

 >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.
                                       ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
Correct me if I am wrong. But how could one CONNECT to a file before OPEN it?
 
>sjc@key.com or ...{sun,pyramid}!pacbell!key!sjc 		Steve Correll

Mike 
ndeng@euler.berkeley.edu