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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: getchar and EOF
Message-ID: <15812@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 12 Apr 91 21:10:36 GMT
References: <1991Apr4.215605.2801@syssoft.com> <1991Apr7.064003.8552@athena.mit.edu> <3727@inews.intel.com>
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In article <3727@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@nevin.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>But like I said before, anything much more complex than
>7-bit ascii usually deserves more care than getchar(3).

getchar() is often used to handle so-called "binary" data,
and getc() even more so.