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- From: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: C programming question under VMS
- Keywords: VMS,C
- Message-ID: <BzBHzq.4Ls@micrognosis.co.uk>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 20:23:49 GMT
- References: <2354@sdrc.COM> <1992Dec9.215244.8634@unet.net.com> <Bz1s8H.55C@micrognosis.co.uk> <2398@sdrc.COM>
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- In article <2398@sdrc.COM>, scjones@thor.sdrc.com (Larry Jones) writes:
- |> In article <Bz1s8H.55C@micrognosis.co.uk>, [ I wrote ]
- |> > You can do what the original poster
- |> > asked by opening with mode "a+" and the using fseek to rewind the file.
- |>
- |> If that really overwrites the previous contents of the file, it's a bug
- |> in VAXCRTL and should not be relied upon.
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- Even though it is clearly not conformant with ANSI C I disagree that it is
- a bug (since it appears to be consistent with the documentation), however,
- I might concede broken-by-design :-) Neil.
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