[Info-vax] Portable OpenVMS binary data format?

[John E]

> Pragmatically?  Use what most folks did, before Fortran 2003 even 
> existed.  Use what most folks still use for database export and import. 
>   Text.  Works nicely.

As this point keeps getting mentioned, I'll note that reading ASCII is too slow for my use case.  So the ASCII route for me is:

1) write ascii (export machine)
2) ftp
3) read ascii (import machine)
4) write binary (import machine)

That binary data on the import machine can now be used by my application 

So the point of a portable binary format in my use case is to get rid of steps 1, 3, & 4.  A pure ascii solution is equally simple but the target application runs too slowly.  This is approximately 4 gb of data in binary format if anyone is curious.