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From: [e-mail] (Aubrey Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What to do when feof() is NOT feof()
Date: 19 Feb 1996 12:48:55 GMT
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Someone earlier posted this group is known as being hostile. I can see why.
Maybe you have not noticed but there are a lot of people in this group trying
to learn C, maybe you were born with it, maybe you sleep with k&r under your
pillow, I don't know. While it is true that my C experience has been limited to
the MS-DOS and Windows environment I don't know why I should be called an idiot
, (twice now!) by people that don't even know me. Maybe you guys should
remember there are real people on the other end of these messages. I doubt you
would stand up at a meeting and call a stranger an ignorant idiot because you
did not like his suggestion.

I should have started my message declaring that I knew that only to work on
MS-DOS file systems. Actually the "I think..." that started my message and you
found so offensive was mostly due to the fact that I was not sure if the syntax
was "standard".  And when (or if) I ever make another post here I will be sure
to do that. But the original poster did not indicate what platform he was on,
and the symptoms he described were familiar to me.

The Bottom line: I was only trying to give someone who was looking for some
help, an idea of what might be the problem. What is wrong with that? Why should
I be attacked for that?

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In article <4g8qa3$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>[e-mail] (Aubrey Harrison) wrote:
>
>>In article <danpop.824614833@rscernix>, [e-mail] says...
>>>
>[the usual good stuff]
>
>>Who died and left you king. Most of the messages I have read from you do
>
>     No one, but if Dan ever wants to become king, he can have my
>vote.
>
>>nothing but harass and ridicule people, rarely ever offering an help or
>>suggestions. I may not be an expert but I know if you open a file with fopen(
>
>     Two possibilities:
>  1) You aren't reading the same posts I am.  I'm reading comp.lang.c
>and comp.lang.c.moderated.
>  2) You skip the posts with words that you don't understand.  Given
>your above statement, this would have to be most of them.
>
>>"filename", "rt"), then fgets stops reading when it finds a ascii 26 and
>>signals end-of-file. If you open it with fopen( "filename","rb") it reads
until
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>     On which system?  And this is a key point.  What works on your
>system may not work on another and vice versa.  Dan knows this.
>
>>the real end-of-file. I noticed in your smart-ass reply you did not offer any
>>answers to his problem. Maybe you should take you own advice.
>
>     You're right.  All he did was tell off an idiot (you) who has
>admitted above that he isn't an expert.  If you have a technical post
>starting with "I think...", you should cancel it.  I do this and let
>someone else who KNOWS answer.  Not that I've never made a mistake,
>but this helps keep them down.
>     Dan is a valued member of this group.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Gene Wirchenko
>
>C Pronunciation Guide:
>     y=x++;     "wye equals ex plus plus semicolon"
>     x=x++;     "ex equals ex doublecross semicolon"
>

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Aubrey Harrison    [e-mail]    [e-mail]
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking
others to live as one wishes to live.-Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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