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

  Formatted sequential WRITE statement format:

    WRITE (extu,fmt[,err][,iostat])[iolist]

  Writes to a specified external unit.  Translates the data from
  binary to character format as specified by "fmt".