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

  Translates data from binary to character format according to the
  data types of the variables in the I/O list.  Statement format:

     TYPE *[,iolist]

     *       Specifies list-directed formatting.

     iolist  Are the names of the variables from which the data
             is transferred, listed in the order of transfer.