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From: daven@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: stdio, THINK C and APPLs
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.224141.9241@svc.portal.com>
Date: 7 Jan 91 22:41:41 GMT
References: <648.2783DF08@busker.fidonet.org>
Organization: Software Ventures
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In article <648.2783DF08@busker.fidonet.org> Rich.Siegel@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Rich Siegel) writes:
>From: siegel@endor.uucp
>Reply-To: siegel@endor.UUCP
>
>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...?
>

Rich, you put it so well!  ;-)


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