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- From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: UNIX fseek time (was Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted)
- Message-ID: <mcdonald.10@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 01:25:49 GMT
- References: <1477@pacsoft.com> <1992Dec29.212344.20899@qb.rhein-main.de> <mcdonald.8@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: UIUC SCS
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- In article <mcdonald.8@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> I wrote:
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- >A seek to a location in a text file is no slower than in a binary file.
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- >This is because the location ... the number that the fseek is to ...
- >can be to a number of bytes in the file ... one does **not** need to
- >take into account the CRLF pairs. An fseek can **only** be to one of three
- >places:
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- >1) the beginning
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- >2) the end
- ^^^
- This is wrong. It's illegal. I hit the "send" key too soon!
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