Inconsitancies with 'INQUIRE'

Philippe Schaffnit P.Schaffnit@access.rwth-aachen.de
Tue Oct 24 13:03:00 GMT 2006


Hi!

Thanks a lot for your reply!

I get: 'F  NO UNKNOWN'

I do not object to getting 'UNKNOWN', but I consistantly get that my
files are unreadable and unformatted in the unreduced code...

This would be too un-reliable to use, then?

Thanks!

Philippe

Tobias Burnus wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Philippe Schaffnit wrote:
> > So, for me 'INQUIRE ( FILE = ..., EXIST = ..., READ = ..., FORMATTED =
> > ... )' behaves in a somewhat random way. Has any one seen that before?,
> > should I file a PR? Can any one reproduce it? (It's not a given, as it
> > might have to do with how the file was created... I use NEdit...).
> >
> One bug I found:
> inquire()  returns formatted == "YES" for files it cannot read.
> It should return "UNKNOWN".
> 
> (Actually, ifort  and NAG f95 return "UNKNOWN" for formatted and
> readable even if the file is readable; except for exists, I wouldn't
> depend too much on readable -- and even less on formatted. In case of
> NAG, the readable status is only right, if the file is opened.)
> 
> Currently, I get with gfortran "T  YES  YES", what do you get, i.e.
> which of the tests gives wrong/inconsistent results?
> Is it existst, read or formatted? And what do you get and what did you
> expect to get?
> 
> Tobias



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