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From: blickstein@babel.DEC (Dave Blickstein)
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Subject: In response to using FORTRAN files with VAX-11 C
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 11:28:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 11:28:20 1985
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	There is an undocumented switch tha can be used when the file is 
opened that will instruct the C RTL NOT to translate the leading character
of each record as though it was a FORTRAN carriage control character.  It
can be used as follows:

	open ("file.ext", mode, flags, "ctx=nocvt");
or
	fopen ("file.ext", access, "ctx=nocvt");

If used the entire record is passed to the user, including the leading 
character.