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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: fopen a File Named During Run-time
Message-ID: <14039@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Oct 90 06:41:47 GMT
References: <37852@ut-emx.uucp> <1071@bilver.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1071@bilver.UUCP> alex@bilver.UUCP (Alex Matulich) writes:
>As I understand it, the "const char *" means that fopen() cannot
>modify the pointer in any way.

Wrong -- it indicates that the function will not modify anything that
can be pointed AT using that pointer.  The actual pointer argument is
of course passed by value and couldn't be modified by the function in
any case.