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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Check if a file exists?
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 96 13:15:24 GMT
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- In article <829643138.AA00183@escan.demon.co.uk>
- bill@escan.demon.co.uk "Bill Birrell" writes:
-
- > > This says it isn't an ANSI C function.
- >
- > Exactly. Are you restricting this conference to ANSI C? If so perhaps it
- >should be renamed to comp.lang.ANSI.c.
-
- The topic for this newsgroup is the C language. In 1996 the C language
- is something that is very well defined by an international standards
- document. If you want to discuss older variants such as K&R C that is
- also welcome however you should make that clear in the post otherwise
- readers will tend to assume ANSI/ISO C. Functions like access() have never
- been part of the C language, be it ANSI C, K&R C or any other variant.
- access() started as a Unix system function and was later standardised in
- documents like POSIX.1. Since it has never been part of the C language
- it is not an appropriate topic for discussion in comp.lang.c, any more than,
- say, getch() is.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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