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- From: sinan@cyberramp.net (John Noland)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: open vs fopen?
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 00:38:24 GMT
- Organization: Prose Software
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- In article <danpop.824829220@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch says...
-
- >Those who're really interested in the differences should be sent to a
- >platform specific newsgroup, because the differences _are_ platform specific.
-
- I'll buy that. You're right. Truth be told, my original post was made from
- the comp.os.msdos.programmer group. I didn't bother to look at the groups
- in the header, so that was my mistake. Sorry. I'm just arguing with you
- for the sake of arguing.
-
- > A very good reason to prefer stdio even if you decide (for whatever reason)
- > to disable the stdio buffering.
-
- Another good point, Dan.
-
- >Right. But to say that the value of BUFSIZ is set to 512 in <stdio.h>
- >is both wrong and misleading. Saying: "on my system/platform/compiler
- >BUFSIZ is set to 512 in <stdio.h>" would have been perfectly OK, although
- >fairly irrelevant, since neither comp.os.msdos.programmer nor
- >comp.lang.c are dedicated to your particular compiler.
-
- It isn't nearly as much fun agreeing with you, Dan. But, you're right
- again.
-
- >Could you post the paragraphs (from this particular thread) which gave
- >you this impression?
-
- The same applies to other operating systems (e.g. Unix) except that they
- do a much better job at buffering I/O than MSDOS.
-
- >Are you sure this question belongs to these newsgroups? Keep your cheap
- >sarcasms for yourself, please.
-
- I don't know if it belongs *to* these newsgroups or not. It probably
- doesn't belong in *this* newsgroup. As a matter of fact, your posting
- of the old April Fool's joke about the C/UNIX hoax seems a wee bit off
- topic itself. Mind you, it doesn't bother me in the least, but I would
- think you'd know better.
-
- You're one serious man, Dan. I've read a lot of your posts, so I know
- you have at least a slight sense of humor. Lighten up. By the way, is
- your middle name, by chance, Persnickety? Dan Persnickety Pop! That has
- a nice ring to it.
-
- -John
-
-