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From: cammta@taux02.UUCP (Amit Mattatia )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Position after Open
Keywords: position open access sequential
Message-ID: <220@taux02.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 15:34:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: taux02.220
Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel
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I will appreciate an answer to the following question:

In ANSI Fortran 77, after executing a statement such as:
	open(2, file='kuku', access='sequential', status='old')
What should be the positioning on the newly opened file? 
Should it be before the first record, or after the last record?
Or is the behavior in such cases rather "processor dependent"?
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Amit Mattatia, CTP group, NSTA
National Semiconductor (Israel)
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