Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!uunet!mcsun!unido!ira.uka.de!fauern!faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!richter From: richter@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Joachim Richter) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: file descriptor vs file handle Message-ID: <1991Mar4.125722.9059@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Date: 4 Mar 91 12:57:22 GMT References: <90361.145855COS99291@ufrj.bitnet> <27C9CB35.5F7@wilbur.coyote.trw.com> <1021@uncw.UUCP> Reply-To: ingo@cnve.rz.uni-jena.dbp.de Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany Lines: 15 In article <1021@uncw.UUCP> session@uncw.UUCP (Zack C. Sessions) writes: [13 lines deleted] >of it's data structure. Files which you access with File Descriptors >use the fopen, printf and scanf constructs, fread, fwrite, and >fclose (plus others). The distinct difference between the two is Is it really true, that you don't know that fopen returns a FILE * ? -------------------------- My real X.400 Address is ingo@cnve.rz.uni-jena.dbp.de Please don't use the address in the header. That's because this is a borrowed account ... Ingo ----- The german revolution from autumn 1989 will change europe's face -----