Re: Read a header and then a binary file?

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

> Richard Maine wrote:
(snip)

>> Direct access was new to f77 (at least as a feature of the standard).

After the last post, I realized that READ DRUM and WRITE DRUM
are pretty much direct access I/O.  The form is

       WRITE DRUM i,j,list

i specifies the drum number, from 1 through 8.
j is the word on the drum to start writing (or reading
for READ DRUM), between 0 and 2047, (modulo 2048 if larger
than 2047).

For timing reasons, either scalar variables or whole arrays
could be read/written.  (No implied-DO loops.)

In the days when 2048 words was a large amount of memory...

-- glen