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From: tom@itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: FORTRAN-4 question
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.103711.27525@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>
Date: 12 Apr 91 10:37:11 GMT
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In article <5217@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <9093.2802d2f5@jetson.uh.edu>, acsls@jetson.uh.edu (Eddie A. McCreary) writes:
>> 1)  WRITE(6'60)FOO,BAR
>>    ========^
>>  Why is there an ' there instead of a comma??
>
>Because a comma would be WRONG.  The 60 is not a format label,
>it is a record number.  Unit 6 is presumably connected to a file
>of unformatted fixed length records.
>
...it should be stated here that this form is no fIV standard, but just an
IBM extension. Neither in f77 this is a standard - the full form of this
statement is WRITE(6,rec=60)...

					Tom Kovar