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From: figuei@arakis.rutgers.edu (Francisco Figueirido)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: CRAY-YMP Fortran-to-C question
Keywords: Fortran, C, CRAY, I/O
Message-ID: <Jun.4.16.30.17.1991.306@arakis.rutgers.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 20:30:18 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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I am trying to write a program (in C) which needs to read data from a
file which was created by a Fortran-written program. The file in
question consists of unformatted (i.e., binary) data. I know that the
CRAY (I am using the one at PSC) writes, as most Fortran compilers,
some sort of count (word count?) before the records, but cannot make
sense of everything I see in the octal dump. Can someone direct me to
where can I get more information about the format of unformatted (no
pun intended!) files? Thanks for the help.

	Francisco Figueirido
	email: figuei@lutece.rutgers.edu