From: "Clive Page" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 6:54 PM
> Unless I missed it, one important usage case has not been mentioned so far.
>
> If you have an existing binary data file that you want to read in
> Fortran, or want to write a binary file for another application to use
> then it's necessary to specify that your variables used in the I/O lists
> have a specific length in bits. INT32, REAL64 and the rest provide a
> good way of specifying this which was hard to do in a portable way before.
For the past 20+ I have been using characters,
and reading and writing binary files successfully
in a portable way.
No need for INT32 etc.
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