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Subject: Re: Re: Slow Fortran I/O - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 04:05:43 EDT
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fortune!rpw3    Jul  5 21:44:00 1984

"Does any FORTRAN compiler compile formats?"

Yes, the old DECsystem-10 compiler FORTRAN-10 did (TOPS-10 O/S). (Note: NOT
the even older "F40".) Formats were compiled into a table somewhat like a
channel command list, and were re-compiled if written into. (Since FORTRAN-10
had some data-flow analysis, that wasn't too hard, I think.)

Rob Warnock

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