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In <4f8bev$6tr@hermes.louisville.edu> gclind01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu 
(George C. Lindauer) wrote:

>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?

fopen() is mostly buffered, open() is, I believe, not. open() also gives some 
extra possible flags for sharing options. I use fopen() without problems. 
Besides, it's ANSI, and I program multiple programs and sometimes share 
modules that I'd have to check and redesign when switching from fopen to the 
local open command.

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