[net.unix-wizards] fortran-type files

lcc.jbrown@ucla-locus.ARPA (Jordan Brown) (08/03/85)

I agree that a header is the correct way to handle the special needs of a
fortran system, but the recent suggestion of a binary header has most of the
usual problems with binary files - they are unreadable, uneditable, and
non-portable (unless you're very careful).  An ASCII header is not that hard
to generate or read, and much nicer for many purposes.