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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Tape I/O Question
Message-ID: <6619@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 01:40:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 01:40:06 1987
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References: <29500018@ccvaxa>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <29500018@ccvaxa> ojones@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
>Is is possible to write information to tape in unix using
>the fortran language.

Not really -- use C, or better yet write to stdout (LUN 6) piped
through the "dd" utility to do the tape record blocking for you.

Your problems may stem from the buffering done by the Fortran
I/O library.