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From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: I/O of complex data structures in C
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Date: 10 Aug 90 20:01:09 GMT
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In-Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of 9 Aug 90 23:44:00 GMT

In article <6323@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
   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().

Because some of them come from the Portable IO library, and were added
to the Standard IO library afterwards for backwards compatability.

BTW, use of gets() is considered a bug in some quarters (mostly those
that lost a weekend to the internet worm).

	<mike
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