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From: ams@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (andrew.m.shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: fgets() for open() ??
Message-ID: <1703@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 89 14:23:01 GMT
References: <410002@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <410002@hpdml93.HP.COM>, by libbyb@hpdml93.HP.COM (Libby Bagley):
< If I open a file using fopen(), I have the function
< fgets() available to me.
< 
< If I open a file using open(), is there a function
< similar to fgets() that I can use?  (Remember my
< reference into the file is no longer a file
< pointer, but an integer file descriptor.)

FILE * fdopen (int fd, char * type) associates a stdio
stream with the fd returned by open(2).  This allows
you to use fgets,fseek, etc.  See fopen(3).

	Andrew Shaw