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From: lijewski@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mike Lijewski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Bogosity in Gould FORTRAN?
Keywords: FORTRAN OPEN READ REWIND GOULD
Message-ID: <7863@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 1 May 89 20:48:21 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell National Supercomputer Facility
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     I have just had a run-in with Gould FORTRAN.  Apparently, Gould
decided to OPEN files with the pointer at end of file as the default.
So if you want to READ some data, you need to do a REWIND immediately
after the OPEN.  On the two dozen or so types of computers I have run
on, never have I run into this.  Have I just been lucky?  I would
appreciate hearing from others who have been bitten by this?
     Gould says that since ANSI didn't explicitely say that the pointer
to an OPEN'd file must be at the beginning of the file, that they can
do this and still be ANSI.  Any comments?


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