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Article #80Re: file positioning with buffered/unbuffered I/O
From: Charlie Wilkinson
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 20:57
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 20:57
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wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes: : phil@cs.utexas.edu (Philip Smolen) writes: [stuff deleted...] : >IMHO the Unix file utilities are easier to use than the corresponding : >ANSI ones. : : Possibly. Unless you want formatted output, buffering, etc. Yeah, if you need formatted I/O, there is no easy way to go besides high- level, but for straight binary I/O, the low-level stuff is far more preferable.<grammar?> Although, one could presumably go far using low-level I/O in conjunction with sprintf() and sscanf(). (Would there be any point?) -- cwilkins@irscscm.uucp /======================\ uunet!mimsy!prometheus!media!ka3ovk!irscscm!cwilkins | Micro-Sig(tm) pellet | N3HAZ@KA3RFE.MD.USA.NA | -just add water | ...or you can call me Charlie \======================/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!aplcen.apl.jhu.edu!wb3ffv!ka3ovk!irscscm!cwilkins From: cwilkins@irscscm.UUCP (Charlie Wilkinson) Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: file positioning with buffered/unbuffered I/O Message-ID: <1992Aug10.205740.4357@irscscm.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 92 20:57:40 GMT References: <1992Aug8.111834.19417@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Organization: Internal Revenue Service Lines: 18