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In article <4f8qbg$549@chleuasme.francenet.fr>,
sherlock@micronet.fr wrote:

 > 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?

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

 Huh? Run that by me again. fopen can open a file for both
 read and write access or just read or just write access.
 
 DOS has nothing to do with permitting read, write, or read/write access,
 that is dependant on the hardware only. Using _dos_open
 returns the dos file handle which can be used with DOS interrupt services,
 this permits you to truncate a file if you wish. FILE is a
 structure about the file it is associated with and the buffer it uses.
 DOS doesn't give buffer info even if your using a buffer.
 
 > 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.

 suppose you just use "r+" for the access specifier with fopen().