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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ansi c and directories
Message-ID: <7156@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 30 Nov 89 18:03:14 GMT
References: <225800244@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <3332@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> <7127@ficc.uu.net> <11707@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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In article <11707@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <7127@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >So, what should the first argument to fopen() be on an Unisys 1100?

> A filename, whose mapping to file access is defined by the implementation.

Good. We've established that. Now why can't the same semantics be defined
for directory reading utilities?
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