To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Binary MS Fortran files. 
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 15:48:39 MST
From: mpsears AT newton DOT cs DOT sandia DOT gov


Christopher Keane has a good point but there might be even worse
problems, since Fortran "binary" files (including direct access) are not
actually binary files and are defined according to the whim 
of whoever wrote the compiler. So even if you get the data sizes
right you might not be able to read the output of one Fortran
(f2c) from another (Microsoft). Another problem with f2c
that has already been mentioned on this mail list is that the portable
binary routines call open() without specifying O_BINARY --
have you made this mod?

mark sears
sandia national laboratories