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In article <rZQHwACMBh107h@rcp.co.uk>, alan@rcp.co.uk (Alan Stokes) writes:
|> In <danpop.807025255@rscernix> Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
|> 
|> >  fread is supposed to read data written by
|> >fwrite 
|> Agreed, probably.

This *is* required by the standard.
|> 
|> >and fwrite will write a 4-byte quantity as 4 characters in the
|> >file.  
|> Says who? I don't see anything in the standard that requires this.

Quite.

As long as fread exactly reverses the conversion done by fwrite, the
requirements of the standard are mt.

Note, the main reason for the way it is written is the existance of some systems
on which writing to a file opened in text mode causes conversion of the NL
character into a two character sequence.

|> But fread and fwrite are apparently free to add their own encoding.

Absolutely.

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