MIPSpro™ Fortran 90 Programmer's I/O Guide

Table of Contents

About This Guide

Related Publications

Obtaining Publications

Conventions

Reader Comments

1. Introduction

The Message System

2. Standard Fortran I/O

Files

Fortran Unit Identifiers

Data Transfer Statements

Auxiliary I/O

Multithreading and Standard Fortran I/O

3. Fortran I/O Extensions

BUFFER IN/BUFFER OUT Routines

4. Named Pipe Support

Named Pipes

5. System and C I/O

System I/O

C I/O from Fortran

6. The assign Environment

assign Basics

assign and Fortran I/O

The assign Environment File

Local assign

7. File Structures

Unblocked File Structure

Text File Structure

COS or Blocked File Structure

8. Buffering

Buffering Overview

Types of Buffering

9. Introduction to FFIO

Layered I/O

Using Layered I/O

10. Using FFIO

FFIO on IRIX systems

FFIO and Common Formats

Enhancing Performance

11. Foreign File Conversion

Conversion Overview

Using fdcp to Transfer Files

Data Item Conversion

Foreign Conversion Techniques

12. I/O Optimization

Overview

An Overview of Optimization Techniques

Optimizing System Requests

Optimizing File Structure Overhead

Minimizing Data Conversions

Minimizing Data Copying

Other Optimization Options

13. FFIO Layer Reference

Characteristics of Layers

Individual Layers

14. Creating a user Layer

Internal Functions

user Layer Example

Glossary

Index