# INQUIRE: WRITE Specifier

The WRITE specifier asks whether a file can be written to. It takes the following form:

WRITE = wr

wr | Is a scalar default character variable that is assigned one of the following values:
'YES' | If the file can be written to
'NO' | If the file cannot be written to
'UNKNOWN' | If the processor cannot determine whether the file can be written to

Parent topic: INQUIRE Statement Specifiers