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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re:  I/O of complex data structures in C
Message-ID: <6323@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 9 Aug 90 23:44:00 GMT
References: <140087@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <25884@mimsy.umd.edu> <dillon.5326@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <dillon.5326@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>     Why am I interjecting what has already been said?  Because nobody has
>     yet explained the one point that confused the hell out of me when I
>     first started learning C, and that is WHY are there two size arguments?!!

So it can return the number of ojbects written to be compatible with fread?

:->

What *I* want to know is why all the stdio routines put the FILE* at the end
instead of the beginning so they can be compatible with fprintf.

And explain the rationale for the assymetry between gets() and fgets().

Sigh.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.