g77 ? why conflicting REC= and END= in read ?

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In a message dated 10/20/98 4:05:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
teuben@astro.umd.edu writes:

>       open(11,file='junk',access='direct',form='unformatted',
>       *          status='old',recl=8)
>  
>          do 100 i=1,10
>              read(11,rec=i,end=800, err=999) j
It does say on page 12-8 of the f77 standard that end-of-file condition may
exist only on a file connected for sequential access.