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

1 - Formatted

  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".

2 - List-directed

  List-directed sequential WRITE statement format:

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

  Writes to a specified external unit.  Translates the data from
  binary to character format according to the data types of the
  variables in the I/O list.

3 - Namelist

  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.

4 - Unformatted

  Unformatted sequential WRITE statement format:

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

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