g77-alpha binary file BACKSPACE does not work

[Richard Henderson]

In article <9801182057.AA13186.cygnus.egcs.bugs@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>,
Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> wrote:
>This wouldn't be much of a problem, if the function f_back (in  
>backspace.c) were coded correctly; unfortunately, it isn't:

I applied the patch, fixed up as appropriate as noted in
your other message wrt N.

>Of course, this opens a new can of worms - do we intend for g77  
>written unformatted files to be readable on every other platform g77  
>is supported on ?

No.  You are much better off with a format designed for
that, such as NetCDF.


r~