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sherlock@micronet.fr wrote:
>natewild@mbnet.mb.ca (Nathan T. Wild) wrote:
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>>In C, why would one use open and DOS int handles rather than fopen and
>>stdio file handles?
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>>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.
Hey, I didn't know that...

ANSI C says: 
ANSI C requires that a file positioning function intervene between output and
input, unless an input operation encounters end-of-file.

So according to this, one can actualy read and write from one file with the
same
FILE*. You open the open like `fopen("Filename", "r+")'.

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>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.

As stated above, high level functions (stdio functions) to it too.

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Regards,
	Guus Leeuw jr