- Reading from a file   
 
- READLINE reads a line from the file into a LINE buffer   
 
- READ gets data from the buffer    
 
 
- Writing to a file    
 
- WRITE puts data into a LINE buffer   
 
- WRITELINE writes the data in the LINE buffer to file   
 
 
- READ and WRITE have several formatting parameters   
 
- Right or left justification   
 
- Field width   
 
- Unit displayed (for time)