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From: gae@osupyr.UUCP (Gerald Edgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What is .Bout for?!?
Message-ID: <264@osupyr.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 08:30:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 08:30:18 1987
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Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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In article <870003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
>Could someone please tell me what a .Bout file is for?  A plain
>document icon called .Bout appears every now and then in a folder full
>of PD software.  Get Info... claims that it's 0k large, which seems pretty
>strange.  Anyone care to venture forth with an illuminating explanation?
>


Aztec C (at least) calls output to the modem port  .Aout   and output to
the printer port   .Bout.  So you can do   fopen(".Bout","w"); etc.

I suppose if you use this construction in the wrong circumstances, or
with another compiler, it will create a file called ".Bout".

That's my guess ...

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