Re: Suggestions on mimicing fgetc and fseek with F90

Clive Page wrote:
> In message <djr5hc$cra$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steven G. Kargl
> <kargl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>> Perhaps, Richard noticed that the OP specifically requested a
>> "standard F90 I/O to do this".
>>
> Well maybe that's the explanation. Of course there really isn't
> such a thing, as F90 didn't support it. [...]

Well, all of the functionality of *formatted* streams was
already supported in F90. The F2003 formatted stream
feature adds nothing to the capability of the Fortran
language.

--
J. Giles

"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare


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