Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!yale!quasi-eli!cs.yale.edu!fractal.math.yale.edu!fn From: fn@fractal.math.yale.edu (Francois Normant) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: pure binary files in fortran on RS6000 (xlf) Message-ID: <29850@cs.yale.edu> Date: 4 Apr 91 16:12:31 GMT Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University - Mathematics Department Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: fractal.math.yale.edu Originator: fn@fractal.math.yale.edu I'm trying to write pure binary files in fortran in order to read them in C. On CRAY 2, I usually open an unformatted file open(unit=70,status='new',form='unformatted',file='foo.out') and call the setpure function to avoid any control characters call setpure(70) The question is: Is there a function equivalent to setpure in xlf (RS6000 fortran) ? Thanks -- Francois Normant - fn@math.yale.edu Yale University - Mathematics Department Box 2155 - Yale Station New Haven CT 06520