Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!gwyn@brl-vld From: gwyn%brl-vld@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: 4.2BSD and F77: Some Questions Message-ID: <13579@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Nov-83 02:49:11 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.13579 Posted: Fri Nov 18 02:49:11 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Nov-83 23:25:38 EST Lines: 13 From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) 4.2BSD comes with a complete new Fortran-77 that is supposed to be MUCH better. So does UNIX System V Release 1.1. I don't know how these f77 systems are related to each other. There should be no question of what intrinsics the language has, they are specified in the ANSI standard. If they aren't all supplied, that should be fixed. The only major surprise in the UNIX f77 is that files are positioned at their END after an OPEN, whereas one would expect the initial position to be the BEGINNING. (This was apparently done to provide a way to open a file for appending, since the ANSI OPEN does not have a MODE=APPEND clause.)