This is the mail archive of the gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: G77 binary file access


Lichtenberger Janos wrote:

> Is it possible to open raw binary file (i.e. without any record structure)
> with G77 OPEN statement or the fputc/fgetc is the only (not very comfortable)
> way to acces raw data.

No, with g77 you have the following options:

1. Use fputc/fgetc (as above).
2. Use a direct access file with RECL=1 and read every character as
   a single byte "record".

> In other Fortran dialects (like DEC, SGI IRIX, or Microsoft for PCs :-)) there
> are additional options to ANSI FORTRAN 77 of OPEN statement, like
> form='binary' or access='stream'. I have not found any suitable set of options
> for this purpose. Can you help me?

Sorry, no other options than the above ...

Kind regards,

-- 
Toon Moene - mailto:toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl - phoneto: +31 346 214290
Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG  Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
Maintainer, GNU Fortran 77: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html
Join GNU Fortran 95: http://g95.sourceforge.net/ (under construction)


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]