[Bug libfortran/18985] opening unit 6 messes up print

[Tobias dot Schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de]

------- Additional Comments From Tobias dot Schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de  2004-12-15 12:30 -------
Subject: Re:  opening unit 6 messes up print

Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de wrote:
> My thinking is that writing to * (or PRINTing)
> should go to standard output, and that unit 6
> just happens to be a convention for a preconnected
> unit that does the same thing.

I really don't think this is worth doing, as we have the evironment variable I
pointed you to. So if the user really does want to use unit 6 for some other
purposes than stdout, he is free to do so, and so the status quo doesn't
prevent anybody from doing anything.

I also think that it is a good thing that there's a way of redirecting *
output to a file: say, the user wants to do something like:

read *, print_to_file
if (print_to_file) then
   open(6,file="stdout")
end if

Is this possible with ifort?

- Tobi



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