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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!unixg.ubc.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cs.ubc.ca!keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) Newsgroups: alt.unix.wizards,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: A challenge Date: 21 Dec 1995 07:34:45 -0800 Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 23 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4bbuqlINN9l1@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> References: <4b4q0l$pc3@news.inc.net> <4b5e2r$nma@shocker.mid.net> <4b9kvv$ria@hecate.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.unix.wizards:2464 comp.unix.admin:36282 comp.unix.advocacy:12464 comp.unix.aix:66999 comp.unix.bsd.misc:391 comp.unix.solaris:55127 comp.unix.ultrix:26566 In article <4b9kvv$ria@hecate.umd.edu>, 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 There is your problem. Your program should be open-ended enough so that the user can specify the output file or have the output sent to the standard output. Even if the output is binary, you should support piping---look at the programs tar, cpio, dd, xwd... You can use a command-line option to specify the filename, or an environment variable. If the program requires a lot of settings, you might want to to give it the ability to read them from a configuration file. >on Unix systems, which complains about the ":" as a directory tree separator. -- I got my degree from the U of NIX. Better dead than Redmond.