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David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:

>You'll probably find that fileno isn't usable in quite the normal way.
>On UNIX and DOS systems, fileno will return the file handle used by
>the low-level open(), read(), write() and close() functions to access
>the file.  In ORCA/C, the buffered file I/O routines don't call the
>low-level routines, rather they call GS/OS directly.  I suspect a
>fileno() macro would return the GS/OS file reference number, which is
>probably different to the one used by open(), read(), etc.

  This is true with the standard ORCA/C libraries, but with the GNO
libraries I also replace open/read/write, etc., so that they deal
with GS/OS RefNums and not arbitrary integers maintained by the
library.

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