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From: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: fopen(), etc. in X3J11 Draft Standard
Message-ID: <402@dg_rtp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Jun-86 11:11:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: dg_rtp.402
Posted: Mon Jun 16 11:11:14 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Jun-86 04:53:33 EDT
References: <842@brahma.cs.hw.AC.UK>
Reply-To: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Organization: Data General (Languages @ Research Triangle Park, NC.)
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In article <842@brahma.cs.hw.AC.UK> chris@cs.hw.ac.uk (Chris Miller) writes:

>I notice that the February 1986 X3J11 draft standard for C omits
>mention of fopen(), freopen() and fclose() (except in the index, which
>is full of errors and appears to refer to an earlier draft).

    This was an accidental omission.  It was included intact in the march
document.  The index probably suffered since we had to change from numbering
the major sections (environment, language, library, appendices) with upper
case roman letters to numbers, due to ANSI rules on how a standard should
look.