The easiest way to port data to or from the Visual Fortran environment is as a formatted, sequential, 8-bit ASCII character file that can be read using Fortran formatted input statements; if you do this, you should have no trouble.
If you try to transfer unformatted binary data between systems, you need to be aware of the different orders (low-order byte first or high-order byte first) in which different systems store bytes within words. If you need to transfer unformatted binary data, review:
You can avoid these problems by using a formatted ASCII file.