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From: Steve.Dorner@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: stdio, THINK C and APPLs
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Date: 29 Dec 90 00:32:17 GMT
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In article <5173@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
>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...?

Then remove \p from string constants, and %P from printf, 'cause they
aren't in the ANSI spec, either.
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