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From: hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Position after Open
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Date: 25 Oct 88 13:45:00 GMT
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Amit Mattatia(cammta@taux02.UUCP) asks:
>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"?

The behavavior is not specified in X3.9-1978 (FORTRAN 77) and thus is
processor dependent.

Kurt W. Hirchert     hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications