[Info-vax] Fortran problem with QIO

[Tom Linden]

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:15:47 -0800, Hein RMS van den Heuvel  
<heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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...

So does PL/I
http://www.kednos.com/pli_examples/00954EBC-DF2BDE20-1C02A1.HTML
and is likely easier to code.

>
>  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.
>
>



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