Hello, The restriction was removed in f03. -- Cheers! Dan Nagle Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc. On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:18:37 -0400, Aleksandar Donev <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Hello, > >Is there a technical reason behind not allowing list-directed IO (* >instead of explicit format) when writing to a string buffer (as opposed >to an external file)? > >Thanks, >Aleks