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From: Steve.Dorner@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: stdio, THINK C and APPLs
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Date: 28 Dec 90 02:34:36 GMT
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In article <1990Dec24.182548.17958@svc.portal.com> daven@svc.portal.com writes:
>>If the data fork assumption is correct, is this The Way It Should Be?  How
>This is The Way It Should Be!

Horse puppies!

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?
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