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Basic I/O

The FORTRAN I/O is replaced by C I/O to avoid the problem presented by machine dependent FORTRAN control words (C just regards a file as a stream of bytes). This enables Zebra to write fixed length records on both tape and disk without the addition of any further control data. This means that the /IO/ variables LUNEVI and LUNEVO are not FORTRAN unit numbers and MUST NOT be used with FORTRAN I/O statements such as OPEN, CLOSE, READ, WRITE etc. A warning is included in io.inc.



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