Re: But DO C hackers code concisely?

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From: Henning Makholm
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:29

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"Robert F. Monroe" <Robert@hever.demon.co.uk> writes:

>What conceivable use could there be for either printf or scanf in a 
>Windows DLL?

The sprintf and sscanf variations do come in handy even when the I/O
capabilities doesn't match the expectations of stdio.h - so does
fprintf and fscanf in Windows - there is no 'terminal' concept but
there *are* disk files.

BTW Windows supplies sprintf as a system call - for messy and
long-gone technical reasons - but a compiler that doesn't offer
fprintf (and other isk file oriented stdio.h functions) to DLL code
IMHO disqualifies itself...

-- 
Henning Makholm - math and CS student - University of Copenhagen
makholm@diku.dk - http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm - fido 2:235/224.92

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