jh34607@suntc.UUCP (john howell) (07/18/89)
A while back someone had a post requesting how to read fortran unformatted files with a C program. I sent them a C function to do this on a SGI 3000, but I left out a couple of important routines and I have lost the address. Are you still interested? I have done some more investigation also. On the SGI 3000, fortran records are delimited by a character, then if this character exists in the real data, special handling occurs. On the SGI 4D, a record starts with a 4 byte integer that tells how many bytes are in the record. The record is then followed with a 4 byte integer that tells how many bytes were in the record. Very much like a hollerith format with an extra error check. ======================================================================== John Howell uucp: uunet!suntc!jrh Deere & Company MCImail: John R. Howell, 360-4047 Technical Center CompuServe: john howell [76666,2505] FAX: (309)765-3807 Voice: (309)765-3784 ========================================================================