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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Q: Orca/C and stat.h
Keywords: Orca/C, C, Unix
Message-ID: <13816@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Sep 90 17:31:02 GMT
References: <923@dg.dg.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <923@dg.dg.com> bkahn@archive.webo.dg.com (Bruce Kahn) writes:
>	iomode = (stat(outfilename, &statbuf) == 0) ? "r+b" : "wb";

<sys/stat.h>, struct stat, and stat() all do not exist in most non-POSIX
(non-UNIX-like) systems.  Rather than giving up, why not rewrite the code
to do what was intended (which this code doesn't do right anyway), using
standard C facilities.