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

  FORM = ft

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

    'FORMATTED'     Formatted *DEFAULT FOR SEQUENTIAL ACCESS*
    'UNFORMATTED'   Unformatted *DEFAULT FOR DIRECT AND KEYED ACCESS*