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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c,comp.unix.advocacy
- Subject: Re: open vs fopen?
- Followup-To: comp.unix.advocacy
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 11:36:49 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <uEYFxc9nX8WX083yn@mbnet.mb.ca> <danpop.824525964@rscernix> <4gbdfr$l2a@newshost.cyberramp.net> <danpop.824829220@rscernix>
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- In article <danpop.824829220@rscernix>, Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
- >>Again,sorry Dan. It just seemed like you were bragging about UNIX and
- >>putting down DOS (god forbid).
- >
- >Could you post the paragraphs (from this particular thread) which gave
- >you this impression?
-
- If Dan were advocating UNIX over DOS, would he not suggest that people avoid
- stdio functions and go right for the cool UNIX/POSIX system calls?
-
- After all, the lame standard library, despite giving you fscanf(), has no
- equivalents for select(), fork() or mmap(). Everyone knows that memory mapped
- files are far cooler that sucking bytes through a straw known as stdio.
-
- But Dan, being the gentleman, suggests that in a newsgroup that embraces all
- standard implementations of C regardless of platform, the proper recommendation
- should be that C programs use the standard library, wherever it applies.
-
- >>DOS is inferior to UNIX in almost every respect. Why isn't UNIX the
- >>most dominant OS in the world?
- >
- >Are you sure this question belongs to these newsgroups? Keep your cheap
- >sarcasms for yourself, please.
-
- It is _not_ the most dominant? Out of things that are entitled to be called
- "OS", it sure is.
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