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The aims of this chapter are: To review the process of file creation at a terminal. To introduce more formally the idea of the file as a fundamental entity. To show how files can be declared explicitly by the open and close statements. To introduce the arguments for the open and close statements. To demonstrate the interaction between the read/write statements and the open/close statements.
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Chivers, I., Sleightholme, J. (2012). Files. In: Introduction to Programming with Fortran. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-233-9_11
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