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- From: gclind01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (George C. Lindauer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: open vs fopen?
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 19:50:55 GMT
- Organization: University of Louisville, Louisville KY USA
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- 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?
-
- >
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