From: Arjen Markus on
On 9 apr, 21:43, nos...(a)see.signature (Richard Maine)

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>
> What you want is a reopen on the same unit, changing the recl value. Go
> ahead and try it. It might work. But, as I said above, it has
> portability issues, particularly prior to f2003. It may well be that
> some f95 compilers just don't support reopening standard input at all.
>

Is reopening of standard input/output guaranteed to
work in F2003? The reason I ask is, that F2003 allows
a number of new interesting features on the OPEN statement:
- The use of a decimal comma
- The use of alternative encodings besides the default

These features are not (or not completely) available
via the READ/WRITE statement (with formatted reading
or writing you can specify the comma/point option, but
not the encoding).

So, if you want to use these features on standard input
or output, you do need to be able to reopen these
"files".

Regards,

Arjen