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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Test of possible ACSGATE on net
Message-ID: <11298@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Oct 89 04:00:07 GMT
References: <16103@nswitgould.cs.uts.oz>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <16103@nswitgould.cs.uts.oz> garth_kidd%680.808@fidogate.fido.oz (Garth Kidd) writes:
>Can anyone think of a tighter way of coding a filter to strip spaces 
>from the input stream than this?

Actually, yes, but I don't want to encourage this utterly HORRIBLE program.
Did you realize that unbuffered 1-byte reads/writes impose tremendous
overhead?  Or that many systems do not have UNIX-compatible read()/write()
functions?