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From: ravi@mcnc.org (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: F8X response (long)
Message-ID: <2883@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 26 Feb 88 17:47:59 GMT
References: <705@elxsi.UUCP> <44400017@hcx2> <6502@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: ravi@mcnc.org.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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In article <6502@j.cc.purdue.edu> tsh@j.cc.purdue.edu (Greg Kamer) writes:
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>
>compare a "sample" script required to run three programs that pass
>some very large temporary files.
>
>Unix -
># prog1 uses as input a file called 'myin'.
>prog1.
># prog1 creates a temp file called 'temp1'.

	Instead of explicitly naming the temporary file, the "open"
statement which opens the file can specify "status=scratch", and Unix
will give it a file which has the process-id as part of the file name;
since each process has a unique pid, the program can be run as many 
times as needed, concurrently, and all the temporary files will have 
unique names.

-ravi