[Info-vax] Fortran problem with QIO

[Hein RMS van den Heuvel]

On Dec 2, 3:24 pm, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> gerr... at no.spam.mail.com wrote:
:
>    Probably true.  And there's also my favorite function,
> FOR$RAB(), which lets you play with all the RAB/FAB/... stuff
> after a normal OPEN.  (I wish that C had one like it.)

Cobol has that, for FAB & RAB...

 CALL "DCOB$RMS_CURRENT_FAB" GIVING FAB_PT

C sort of has this, in the USEROPEN style flavor that FORTRAN and
BASIC offer.

$ help fortr stat open user


$help crt creat arg
l  :
         "acc"          callback Access callback routine.

fwiw,
Hein.