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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: pointer alignment when int != char *
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> I have no problem with any of that. On systems where it is not appropriate
> to use read() and write() as the primitives, implement them using fread()
> and fwrite().

What would this buy you, other than a false sense of security when moving UNIX
programs to non-UNIX systems?
	Guy Harris
	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
	guy@sun.com