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From: honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman)
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Subject: Re: how safe is it to read/write with fopen'ed files?
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 21:30:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 21:30:41 1985
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note that the fread/frwite calls are to the file being transferred,
not to the i/o channel.  i applied this fix to e, x, d, and even g,
i.e., to all the protocols, since they were all freading and fwriting
in BUFSIZ units.  i didn't bother to measure the speedup ...

	peter

ps:  it appears this observation was made independently and
simultaneously by norman wilson and mike bianchi.  obviously,
an idea whose time had come.