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From: robert@.UUCP (Robert Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Query: DeSmet C syntax -- converting to standard C
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Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 14:04:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: .457
Posted: Thu Jun 18 14:04:40 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Jun-87 03:03:05 EDT
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Summary: DeSmet C 3.0

> |                                  The specific example that 
> |usually plagues me is that the buffered i/o routines, fopen, etc. use
> |an integer for FILE instead of a FILE * to designate the file number.
> 
> The above has nothing to do with SYNTAX.  The syntax of DeSmet C is
> probably quite standard.
  ^^^^^^^^
   . . . IS quite standard. I've just received version 3.0, and FILE * is
   now used instead of FILE typedef'ed to int. I haven't run 3.0 yet, but
   I've been using DeSmet for some years now and quite like it. 2.5 is
   the just-previous release and is fine.