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Article #11135Re: UNIX fseek time (was Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted)
From: J. D. McDonald
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:25
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:25
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In article <mcdonald.8@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> I wrote:
>A seek to a location in a text file is no slower than in a binary file.
>This is because the location ... the number that the fseek is to ...
>can be to a number of bytes in the file ... one does **not** need to
>take into account the CRLF pairs. An fseek can **only** be to one of three
>places:
>1) the beginning
>2) the end
^^^
This is wrong. It's illegal. I hit the "send" key too soon!
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