Formatted

 Formatted direct WRITE statement format:

WRITE (extu,rec,fmt[,iostat][,err])[iolist]

Writes to a specified external unit. Translates the data from binary to character format as specified by "fmt".

Unformatted

 Unformatted direct WRITE statement format:

WRITE (extu,rec[,iostat][,err])[iolist]

Writes to a specified external unit. Does not translate the data.