It can be passed to a subroutine.  I've had to do it.

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Mark Boyd wrote:

<<Correct.  It can't be moved, computed or set.  Now THERE'S an enhancement
worth having.>>

I cannot imagine doing any of those things. Well, maybe I might need to pass
the
FD to a subroutine, and offhand, I do not know whether the FD can be passed
in a
parameter list.

As for computing (calculating?) or setting, neither of these, to my
knowledge
can be done with the return of FOPEN.
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