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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: File Handles in Turbo C
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Date: 10 Jul 89 15:33:32 GMT
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in article <2214@orion.cf.uci.edu>, dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu (Doug Krause) says:

> After "fopen"ing a file, how can I get a file handle?  (I want to use
> the function getftime.)

#include <stdio.h>
int fileno(stream);
FILE *stream;

fileno returns the file handle.
There is no error return.
Results are undefined if 'stream' does not specify an open file.

fileno is implemented as a macro.
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