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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What real non-UNIX 'C' compilers implement...
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Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 23:07:10 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 26 23:07:10 1987
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In article <29156@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>... this
>explanation may not make sense to somebody not familiar with standard I/O
>streams and UNIX file descriptors, but it's not clear any *other* explanation
>of this will make sense if you're not familiar with those objects.

How about: "fread() uses user-mode buffering; read() does not".
Of course there are other differences, but that seems to be the
essential functional distinction.