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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: TC bugs
Keywords: bug, TC
Message-ID: <17635@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 5 Sep 90 19:50:35 GMT
References: <35025@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Reply-To: karl@kelp.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <35025@unix.cis.pitt.edu> ydist@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Yijun Ding) writes:
>The second, I am not sure.  The "a+" format does not allow write to the
>beginning of files in TC.  On unix, the printout is "isis is a ..." instead
>of "This is a..." on TC.

TC is correct, some versions of Unix have it wrong (when measured against the
ANSI C Standard).  "Opening a file with append mode causes all subsequent
writes to be forced to the then current end-of-file, regardless of intervening
calls to fseek()."  [4.9.5.3]

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint