Any question answered...

Fucking fortran. Trying to do direct access. I've given up because when reading you have to specify the record e.g

read(11,REC=1) var

which if I read in unformatted gives gobadly gook. and if I read in formatted

e.g

read(11,'(I2)',REC=1) var

gives me error in my record number (REC), changing the REC to be gives me different error of non valid REC or something I forget.

Done a hack of sequential access but opening and closing the file, string recognition and some other bullshit that in any other language would not be needed. The amount of fannying around I have to do gets on my tits.

Ah, fortran - I didn't realize what you were talking about before..

Did you create the input file with direct access?

If you want to post your code on gist.github.com I can take a look.. Though I think I would need your binary file to test, do you have the code that created the file?