--- Seijo Kruizinga <s.kruizinga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > L.S. > > I recently downloaded the latest version of gfortran > (4.3.0). In general it > works very well. I met, however, a curious problem. > When I tried to open a > file twice with different unit-numbers I got an > error message during > running. (I try to read the files synchron with a > records spacing). In f77 > this was allowed. I can imagine some problems if you > use then read/write. > But even with status'='OLD' it was refused. I use it > under Suse 10.0. > > Thanks for your help, > > Seijo Kruizinga > > is this an example of your problem: $ cat b.f open(unit=20,file='b.f') open(unit=30,file='b.f') print*,'ok' end $ g77 b.f $ ./a.out ok $ gfortran -static b.f $ ./a.out At line 2 of file b.f Fortran runtime error: File already opened in another unit --bud