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  1. Path: news.res.com!usenet
  2. From: danlynes@res.com
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: open vs fopen?
  5. Date: 16 Feb 1996 06:53:52 GMT
  6. Organization: RES Online
  7. Message-ID: <4g19m0$c1p@clare.res.com>
  8. References: <uEYFxc9nX8WX083yn@mbnet.mb.ca> <4f8bev$6tr@hermes.louisville.edu> <4fbfno$7f@noc.tor.hookup.net>
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  13. In <4fbfno$7f@noc.tor.hookup.net>, Rajendra_Singh@msn.com (Rajendra Singh) writes:
  14.  
  15. >That's incorrect.  fopen() is used for buffered I/O!  open() is not a
  16. >UNIX specific function nor is it non-ANSI!
  17.  
  18. I'm afraid you're sadly mistaken.  open() is not ANSI.  It is a POSIX 1003.1
  19. compliant function.  However, you are correct in stating that fopen()
  20. provides for buffered file i/o.
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