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.