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- From: robertl@county.lmt.mn.org (ROBERT LAUMEYER)
- Subject: Operations on Files
- Message-ID: <robertl.4.715452734@county.lmt.mn.org>
- Keywords: ANSI C, files
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- Organization: LaserMaster R&D, Minneapolis, MN USA
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:52:14 GMT
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- The ANSI C standard seems to have a rather odd mix of file
- operations. Why didn't they add (over K&R) some other useful file
- operations such as fileexist, getfirst, getnext, etc? It seems that
- these could not be much more dependent on the underlying file system than
- rename or remove.
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