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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: "lseek" in ANSI C (was Re: pointer alignment when int != char *)
Message-ID: <2550028@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 02:23:12 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 13 02:23:12 1987
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>    So in other words, Mr. Gwyn, what you are saying is that the ANSI C
> workgroup has taken it upon themselves to decide that "portable applications"
> programs have NO NEED to do other than straight sequential I/O on files,
> is this correct?  How very paternalistic of them! 

Uh...while lseek() is not present in the ANSI C draft, fseek() is present.

>    Sounds to me as if some (most?) of the people on that group are making
> some pretty heavy assumptions, some of which may well BREAK the usefulness
> of the ANSI C standard sufficiently as to render it totally USELESS.

Sounds to me as if you need to read the draft before making some pretty
heavy assumptions about rather competent persons.

Dave Decot
hpda!decot