VMS Help FORTRAN, Statements, TYPE, Formatted  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  Translates data from binary to character format as specified by the
  format specifications.  Statement format:

     TYPE f[,iolist]

     f       Is a format specifier not prefaced by FMT=.

     iolist  Are the names of the variables from which the
             data is transferred, listed in the order of transfer.