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- From: jlhall@ferranti.com (Jonathan Luke Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: FORTRAN OPEN on tape MOUNT/FOREIGN, bug or feature?
- Message-ID: <id.95YR.OCD@ferranti.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 22:23:54 GMT
- Sender: jlhall@ferranti.com (jonathon hall)
- Organization: Ferranti Int'l Controls - SCADA Dept.
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- When using the OPEN statement from a FORTRAN program compiled and
- LINKed on a 6000-630 on VMS 5.5 accessing a file on a 3480 tape
- mounted using $MOUNT/FOREIGN, I notice that if I specify
- RECORDTYPE='FIXED' on the OPEN for write that I have to specify
- RECORDTYPE='VARIABLE' on the OPEN for read.
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- There is no discrepancy between RECORDTYPEs if either the MOUNT is
- not FOREIGN and/or the RECORDTYPE is 'VARIABLE' on the write.
-
- It this a bug or a feature?
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- Jonathan Luke Hall
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