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From: lcc.jbrown@ucla-locus.ARPA (Jordan Brown)
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Subject: fortran-type files
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Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 16:34:54 EDT
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I agree that a header is the correct way to handle the special needs of a
fortran system, but the recent suggestion of a binary header has most of the
usual problems with binary files - they are unreadable, uneditable, and
non-portable (unless you're very careful).  An ASCII header is not that hard
to generate or read, and much nicer for many purposes.