4.2BSD and F77: Some Questions

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From:      Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn at brl-vld>

4.2BSD comes with a complete new Fortran-77 that is supposed to be MUCH
better.  So does UNIX System V Release 1.1.  I don't know how these f77
systems are related to each other.

There should be no question of what intrinsics the language has, they
are specified in the ANSI standard.  If they aren't all supplied, that
should be fixed.  The only major surprise in the UNIX f77 is that files
are positioned at their END after an OPEN, whereas one would expect
the initial position to be the BEGINNING.  (This was apparently done
to provide a way to open a file for appending, since the ANSI OPEN
does not have a MODE=APPEND clause.)