In Compaq Fortran 77, you can specify the following form of the DELETE statement when deleting records from a relative file:
DELETE (u'r [,ERR=s] [,IOSTAT=ios])
This form deletes the direct access record specified by r.
For details on the DELETE statement: on OpenVMS systems, see Section 9.3; on Tru64 UNIX systems, see Section 10.3.