10 Data Transfer I/O Statements

Input/Output (I/O) statements can be used for data transfer, file connection, file inquiry, and file positioning.

This chapter discusses data transfer and contains information on the following topics:

• An overview of records and files (Section 10.1)
  
  
• Components of data transfer statements (Section 10.2)
  
  
• Data transfer input statements:
  
  
  • READ statement (Section 10.3)
    
    
  • ACCEPT statement (Section 10.4)
  
  
• Data transfer output statements:
  
  
  • WRITE statement (Section 10.5)
    
    
  • PRINT and TYPE statements (Section 10.6)
    
    
  • REWRITE statement (Section 10.7)

File connection, file inquiry, and file positioning I/O statements on OpenVMS systems are discussed in Chapter 12; on Tru64 UNIX, Linux, Windows systems, Chapter 13.