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From: ken@HAMLET.CALTECH.EDU (Kenneth Adelman)
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Subject: Re: Fortran and filenames
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Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 01:02:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  5 01:02:42 1987
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I tried both naming it in my OPEN statement and ASSIGNING aor DEFNINING
FOR001 (the logical name for Fortran unit 1) as "MUA1:.DMP".  But it
kept trying to open "MUA1:FOR001.DMP".

    The problem is that the Fortran OPEN specifies a default file
name of 'FOR001.DAT' to RMS and any fields not specified in the FILE
keyword default from this. You can change the default with the
DEFAULTFILE keyword:

    open(unit=1,file='mua1:.dmp',defaultfile=' ')

						Kenneth Adelman
						Caltech