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

  CARRIAGECONTROL = cc

  cc  Is a character expression with one of the following
      values:

  'FORTRAN'   Process with normal FORTRAN interpretation of
              the first character
  'LIST'      Process with single spacing between records
  'NONE'      Do not use implied carriage control

  The default for unformatted files is 'NONE'.  The default for
  formatted files is 'FORTRAN'.