(not posted)

I am not so sure about it, but I was suspecting that
different implementations used RECL in different ways
before it was standardized. If it was standardized
first, there should not be this ambiguity.

I had once thought that unformatted files were in
terms of what now seems to be called
"numeric storage unit". I was, then, surprised to
find them in terms of bytes.

-- glen

glen herrmannsfeldt ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

They were always in "processor-dependent units". The processor-dependent
unit got a name (file storage unit) in f2003, along with a nonbinding
recommendation, but no change of substance.

The "processor-dependent units" were indeed processor dependent, as one
might guess. If you ever thought otherwise, I'm afraid that can't be
traced to any wording in the standard. I do realize that many people had
such a confusion, but that doesn't have much to do with the standard,
which gave not even a hint that the units in question would have
anything to do with either numeric storage units or bytes.

And I still don't see how this relates to the question about encoding,
except insomuch as both are things people might be confused about, in
which case they are both members of a large set.

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