https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Closed-file-rewound/m-p/928900#M14381 Position is a property of the file connection, not the file itself. Once you close the file, the connection goes away. Upon reopening, the position is the default, based on what you specified with POSITION=, if any. Note that the default is 'ASIS', which for Compaq Fortran is the same as 'REWIND'.<BR /><BR />Steve Tue, 28 Nov 2000 01:36:36 GMT Steven_L_Intel1 2000-11-28T01:36:36Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Closed-file-rewound/m-p/928899#M14380 Suppose I open a file, read a line or two, and then close it. Is that file automatically rewound? In others words, if I open it again later in the same program, will the file be repositioned to the beginning? <BR /> <BR />Thanks. Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:50:05 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Closed-file-rewound/m-p/928899#M14380 Intel_C_Intel 2000-11-28T00:50:05Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Closed-file-rewound/m-p/928900#M14381 Position is a property of the file connection, not the file itself. Once you close the file, the connection goes away. Upon reopening, the position is the default, based on what you specified with POSITION=, if any. Note that the default is 'ASIS', which for Compaq Fortran is the same as 'REWIND'.<BR /><BR />Steve Tue, 28 Nov 2000 01:36:36 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Closed-file-rewound/m-p/928900#M14381 Steven_L_Intel1 2000-11-28T01:36:36Z