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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Using END= and ERR= in READs
Message-ID: <14166@admin.mips.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 89 04:23:44 GMT
References: <436@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>
Reply-To: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <436@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
>
>Logic tells me that an
>end-of-file condition should be handled by an ERR= iff no END= is
>present.

No, your experience with VMS FORTRAN tells you this.  End-of-file is not
considered an error in FORTRAN 77, but an expectable condition; it is not
necessarily subject to handling via ERR=.
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