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From: brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Bogosity in Gould FORTRAN?
Summary: There's a hole in the standard.
Keywords: FORTRAN OPEN READ REWIND GOULD
Message-ID: <76@unmvax.unm.edu>
Date: 2 May 89 04:32:29 GMT
References: <7863@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
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Organization: University of New Mexico at Albuquerque
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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.

Stu Feldman tried to get X3J3 to plug the hole & was not successful
for some reason, so, just to be perverse, he opened files at the end
in his orginal version of f77.  Can't imagine anybody that was writing
a compiler for commercial purposes would ever do such a thing.  Following
along like sheep, I guess!

   Walt Brainerd, Unicomp, Inc. 505/275-0800 brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu