Forms for Stream WRITE Statements

The forms for stream WRITE statements take the same forms as sequential WRITE statements. A POS specifier may be present to specify at what file position the WRITE will start.

You can impose a record structure on a formatted, sequential stream by using a new-line character as a record terminator (see intrinsic function NEW_LINE). There is no record structure in an unformatted, sequential stream.

The INQUIRE statement can be used with the POS specifier to determine the current file position in a stream file.