Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!geovision!pt
From: pt@geovision.uucp (Paul Tomblin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: MS Fortran files in C
Keywords: fortran C file io
Message-ID: <1317@geovision.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 91 13:35:24 GMT
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: GeoVision Corp., Ottawa, Ontario
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I'm trying to read Grid files produced by a package that I didn't write,
so that I can create contours.  I'm pretty sure the files were created by
routines in MS-Fortran.

When I look at them with 'list /h', it seems that there is two bytes of
junk every 64 words, or at the end of a record.  Does anybody know whether
this is some wierdness that MicroSoft did for thier implementation of
Fortran Direct Access Files.  (Does MS-Fortran support FDA?)  Can anybody
tell me what the real format of these records is, so that I can read them
in my C program?

No, I don't have access to a MS-Fortran library, so I can't do my file IO
in Fortran.  (I'm using TurboC.  I haven't used fortran in 3 years, since I
expunged the last fortran routine from our GIS product, by rewriting it in C)

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