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Reading unformatted fortran files on Windows platform [message #12641]

Mon, 10 August 1998 00:00

Richard Eckman
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Registered: August 1998

Junior Member

I just moved over to using IDL on a Windows NT platform. I'm running Fortran
applications using Visual Digital Fortran which maintains compatibility with
our array of Digital Alpha workstations. The output from Fortran
is written with format="unformatted". On a UNIX box, these files may be
easily opened and read with
the /f77 in IDL, which is missing from the Windows version of IDL.

In order to read these fortran files (produced on our Windows box), I've
found no better way than to read a
"junk" longword before and after each record. It's a bit of mess modifying
existing code to run on both
Unix and Windows platforms. Some months ago, I posted a message asking if
anyone had any easier
method of reading these unformatted fortran files on a Windows box. I
received no really encouraging
replies at that time. I'm wondering if anyone recently has run into this
same problem and has a good
solution for it? Ideally, it would be nice for RSI to enable the use of the
/f77 keyword in Windows-based
IDL since there are Fortran compilers that will write this type of
unformatted file under Windows.

Thanks, in advance, for any assistance.

Richard Eckman
NASA Langley
Hampton, VA

r.s.eckman@larc.nasa.gov

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