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From: bela@sp2gate.chem.emory.edu (Bela Gazdy)
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Subject: Re: A challenge
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Date: 21 Dec 1995 15:25:00 GMT
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Ed Schmahl (ed@astro.umd.edu) wrote:
: 
: 
: Here's a question (possibly useful, possibly stupid) that none of the
: Unix wizards I know have been able to answer.  Let's see if anyone on
: the Net has any suggestions.
: 
: Say we've got a (gasp) Fortran program that outputs data to a file called
: R:foobar.  The program compiles fine on VMS and DOS operating systems, but not
: on Unix systems, which complains about the ":" as a directory tree separator.
<cut>

	program colon
		open (unit=10,file="R:foobar",status="new")
		close (10)
	stop
	end

compiles, runs, and creates an empty R:foobar file in the cwd on
AIX 3.2.5. You've got a problem without the "-s though.
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Heus, tu !                     | Bela Gazdy  bela@sp2gate.chem.emory.edu
de Jove quid sentis ?          | Emory Univ. Atlanta, GA  (404) 727-2383