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From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS)
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Subject: Re: Character aliases are Satanic exten
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Date: 19 May 89 08:44:25 GMT
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In article <1515@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> gl8f@Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:

>If you can come up with an ANSI-Standard Approved Nutritious Scheme for
>writing character data into binary files with real numbers

?? this is perfectly allowed; viz.

	write(10) character*10,real*8,character*10

is legal in x3.9-1978.


, or putting
>character data into commons with other data, let me know

this (and equivalence) is what was disallowed.


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