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

  Namelist sequential WRITE statement format:

    WRITE (extu,nml[,err][,iostat])

  Writes to a specified external unit.  Translates the data from
  binary to character format according to the data types of the list
  entities in the corresponding NAMELIST statement.