Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: file descriptor vs file handle Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 18:50:50 GMT References: <90361.145855COS99291@ufrj.bitnet> <27C9CB35.5F7@wilbur.coyote.trw.com> <1991Feb26.101038.1@dev8n.mdcbbs.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 In article <1991Feb26.101038.1@dev8n.mdcbbs.com> campbell@dev8n.mdcbbs.com (Tim Campbell) writes: > Applies specificly to DOS (MS-DOS, IBM-DOS, etc.) based applications. > File Descripters were a carry over from CP/M - when a program needed to > open a file... Yo, I thought my table was complete. These beasties are "file control blocks" or FCBs. I've never seen them described as "file descriptors". But that doesn't mean IBM might not have done so. I would put nothing beyond IBM when it comes to screwing up terminology about files... data sets.... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"