In Compaq Fortran, you can specify the following form of the DELETE statement when deleting records from a relative file:
DELETE (io-unit'r [,ERR=label] [,IOSTAT=i-var])
This form deletes the direct access record specified by r.
For details on the DELETE statement for OpenVMS systems, see Section 12.3; for Tru64 UNIX, Windows NT, and Windows 9* systems, see Section 13.3.