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

1 - Formatted

  Formatted direct WRITE statement format:

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

    WRITE (u'r,fmt[,err][,iostat]) [iolist]

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

2 - Unformatted

  Unformatted direct WRITE statement format:

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

    WRITE (u'r[,err][,iostat])[iolist]

  Writes to a specified external unit.  Does not translate the data.