How to fix "open(unit=16,file='my.txt,dispose='delete')"?

[Tim Prince]

On 7/27/2013 6:28 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to fix "open(unit=16,file='my.txt',dispose='delete')", by
> replacing "dispose" with "status". But I then see the following error.
> Does anybody know how to fix it? Thanks.
>
>        open(unit=16,file='my.txt',status='delete')
>                                                      1
> Error: STATUS specifier in OPEN statement at (1) has invalid value 'delete'
>
> http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/modernizing+old+fortran
>
maybe status='scratch' ?

your original post made me think of SunOS f77.  When you said your code 
was f77, without specifying further, that gives the false impression 
that it doesn't have non-standard legacy extensions.

-- 
Tim Prince