[Info-vax] Portable OpenVMS binary data format?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-07-30 15:34:25 +0000, Stephen Hoffman said:

> Straight and simple text export and import works, as can 
> metadata-capable text-based formats such as YAML, JSON and XML.

No idea if it'll work here particularly given the vintage of Fortran on 
OpenVMS, but netCDF looks spot on...
https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/

Some existing tools, including some bits for CSV (ugh) or XML (less ugh)...
http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Libraries

http://www.fortran.com/the-fortran-company-homepage/fortran-tools-libraries-and-application-software/ 


https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24395686/best-way-to-write-a-large-array-to-file-in-fortran-text-vs-other 


And just for grins...
https://fortran.io

YACS looks interesting, though it's probably far beyond what you're 
looking for here.  Though the CALCIUM bits allow exporting and 
importing data for C and Fortran code...
http://docs.salome-platform.org/latest/gui/YACS/using.html
http://docs.salome-platform.org/latest/gui/YACS/calciumapi.html


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