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From: geert@ahds.UUCP (Geert W.T. Jonkheer CCS/TS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Fopen vs. open
Message-ID: <1987@ahds.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 91 07:15:33 GMT
References: <1991May10.190549.1252@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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In article <1991May10.190549.1252@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, heavy@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Richard Scott Hall) writes:
> I am using GNU C, and I was just wondering what is the
> difference between Fopen() [not fopen()] and open()?
> Are the file descriptors they return totally different?
> The reason I am asking, is when the new Flock() function
> is implemented for networking, will we HAVE to use Fopen()
> or can we still use open()?
> 

It seems that you ment the Fopen of the atari system calls (the Fopen 
of atari Bios). Most C compilers (GNU included) used on ST machines 
are using Fopen() for open() and fopen(). I think therfor
it is no problem at all using open() or fopen().

Geert.