All Fortran 77 users are encouraged to migrate their applications to the Fortran 95 compiler, f95 . This enables data to be written and read as a continuous stream of bytes, and provides compatibility with other vendor systems. Data is written to the file in binary, with as many bytes transferred as there is specified in the output list. Not allowed - returns an error. Truncates file at current position, as usual.
Repositions file to beginning of data, as usual.
Many of the problems reported with previous releases of the Fortran 77 compiler have been corrected in this release. This section discusses the following software bugs that could not be fixed in time for this release. Compiler option -vpara does not function reliably and may issue inaccurate messages. Fortran 77 and previous releases. The -oldldo option no longer supported in this release.