Another approach is to patch the FORTRAN I/O to write to a socket, and then read the socket data from java through TCP. We used something like that in our environmental hydrology workbench prototype. (Actually, there was an intervening C program in our setup, but that isn't really necessary.) see http://scrap.ssec.wisc.edu/~tobis/ehwb.html . mt -- Michael Tobis
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