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From: phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77
Subject: Re: Internal READ Problems
Message-ID: <2886@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 19:13:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 28 19:13:41 1984
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To paraphrase from the FORTRAN 77 standard,
a unit for an internal file must take the form of 
a character variable, a character array element, a character substring,
or a character array which represents the internal file.

Note that there is no mention of character literals,
which is what was used in the first example in the original posting.
The second example does use a character variable;
predictably enough, that is the example that "works"
(I'm not convinced that it does what it should, by the way).

-- Clay Phipps

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