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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: ERR= and END=
Summary: machine dependent?
Message-ID: <3234@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 89 01:08:13 GMT
References: <2291@unmvax.unm.edu> <91480@sun.uucp>
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In article <91480@sun.uucp>, khb%fatcity@Sun.COM (fatcity) writes:
< 	do i = 1, max
< 	   read(ilun,'(your format)',IOSTAT=istat) your variable list
< 	   if (istat .EQ. EOF) then
< 		 EXIT
< 	   else if (istat .NE. OK) then
< 	         call abort('your favorite abort messages',istat)
< 	   endif
< 	   your processing goes here
< 	end do

Nice idea, but isn't it kind of environment dependent?  Like, where does the
value of the EOF parameter come from?

< If one doesn't have EXIT, goto label works just fine.

Or STOP.
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