Re: open vs fopen?

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From: George C. Lindauer
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 19:50

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natewild@mbnet.mb.ca (Nathan T. Wild) writes:

>In C, why would one use open and DOS int handles rather than fopen and
>stdio file handles?

The only reason I know of is UNIX portability.  Whenever I run across a
unix program that uses the old-style open instead of fopen I usually
end up rewriting it anyway though; I've had so many problems with
the unix-style stuff I just rather would deal with the ANSI style.

David
>Is there some speed advantage or differnet functionality?

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Subject: Re: open vs fopen?
Date: 6 Feb 1996 19:50:55 GMT
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