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

  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.