Re: open vs fopen?

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From: sherlock
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 09:04

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

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

>Is there some speed advantage or differnet functionality?

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because files opened using open and DOS files handles can be read and
write at the same time, while stdio files can't.

suppose you have a database file, with fixed length fields.
low level functions(open...) enable the writing of some records and
the reading of other without closing the file.

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