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From: mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun)
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Subject: Re: Bogosity in Gould FORTRAN?
Keywords: FORTRAN OPEN READ REWIND GOULD
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Date: 1 May 89 23:26:47 GMT
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In article <7863@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> lijewski@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mike Lijewski) writes:
>     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.
 [ several lines deleted for brevity]
>     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?

The (yellow spine) UNIX Programmers Manual contains a similar statement
regarding "A Portable Fortran 77 Compiler".  Apparently this is just
another of the many things about which good programmers need to be aware.
Makes for more job security, at least!
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