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From: siegel@endor.uucp (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: stdio, THINK C and APPLs
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Date: 28 Dec 90 02:49:52 GMT
References: <VLADIMIR.90Dec23224539@prosper.EBB.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Dec24.182548.17958@svc.portal.com> <1990Dec27.183436.3786@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1990Dec27.183436.3786@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>
>It would be easy enough to add another file "mode" to fopen (and another
>flag bit to open), to give you the choice of data or resource forks.  I wonder
>why the library writers don't do it?

	Perhaps because it isn't ANSI-conformant...?

R.



 Rich Siegel	Symantec Languages Group  Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu

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