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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: fopen ( ..., "a" ) --- how does the "a" work?
Message-ID: <11773@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 Dec 89 02:33:59 GMT
References: <MEISSNER.89Dec6215032@tiktok.rtp.dg.com> <3263@hub.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3263@hub.UUCP> 6600pete@hub.UUCP writes:
>Perhaps the best way to do it, then, is to call open() with O_APPEND,
>then pass the handle to fdopen()? What does anyone think?

I think you haven't shown us a clear conception about what you
need to do.  Is there some reason for not using fopen(...,"a")
and letting the C implementation worry about the details?