From robert.corbett@eng.sun.com Tue Jun 6 08:00:35 2000 Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA11855 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:00:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from robert.corbett@eng.sun.com) Received: from engmail4.Eng.Sun.COM ([129.144.134.6]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA19939; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ha-sims.eng.sun.com (phys-thestorka.Eng.Sun.COM [129.146.1.231]) by engmail4.Eng.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v1.7) with ESMTP id XAA17334; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:00:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lupa (lupa.Eng.Sun.COM [129.146.78.104]) by ha-sims.eng.sun.com (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.1999.06.13.00.20) with SMTP id <0FVP00IG6Y0UCZ@ha-sims.eng.sun.com>; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 23:00:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Corbett Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.1831) French (AFNOR) proposal for Oulu meeting To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk, vsnyder@vanpc.jpl.nasa.gov Cc: robert.corbett@eng.sun.com Reply-to: Robert Corbett Message-id: <0FVP00IG7Y0UCZ@ha-sims.eng.sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: dtmail 1.2.1 CDE Version 1.2.1 SunOS 5.6 sun4u sparc Content-type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: CvzFbWUOcoOM/mqmvbZvfg== > In N1385, the French Fortran committee (AFNOR) propose to add XDR to > the list of forms allowed for a file. > > I don't know XDR well enough to answer the question whether BACKSPACE > would be possible for XDR-formatted files. If not, some more work > would be needed for the AFNOR proposal. > > Best regards, > Van Snyder An interesting point. XDR presents data as a byte stream, so I suppose a BACKSPACE statement could simply back up the file position one byte. Sincerely, Bob Corbett