Re: documentation for g77 i/o

[craig at jcb-sc dot com]

>"Alan M. Brothers" <amb@lrs-2.jpl.nasa.gov> writes:
>
>> Could you (sorry I don't know your name) please tell me
>> where I can get the documentation for the g77 i/o
>> statements. It doesn't seem to be included with the
>> g77 info files. I have a feeling it should be included
>> with libf2c, but I sure can't find it.
>
>At least in f2c, I/O stmts were translated into do_lio() (AFAIR) calls 
>and the latter was part of libf2c.

That's the case for g77, though do_lio is just one of many functions
in libf2c that both f2c and g77 use (in the code they generate).

The g77 docs have some information on its I/O support, but they don't
provide the "basics" -- the stuff you find in documents on FORTRAN 77,
such as the standard, tutorials, and so on -- and there's some info
on extensions g77 supports missing.  Filling in the latter is important,
so if you point out things you'd like to see added, we'd appreciate
it, especially if you include writeups (which can be plaintext, if
you don't want to learn GNU Texinfo).

        tq vm, (burley)