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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: fgets() for open() ??
Message-ID: <2115@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 89 21:06:27 GMT
References: <410002@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Reply-To: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <410002@hpdml93.HP.COM> libbyb@hpdml93.HP.COM (Libby Bagley) writes:
<The question comes up because I would like to
<lseek() a line at a time for variable length
<lines.

I don't know your specific application, but in general if you do that
you will wind up with an incredibly slow program. That's why the fxxxx()
functions were written, to buffer the disk I/O to speed it up.

I suggest you investigate using fseek() and ftell() instead.