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From: peter@sugar.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: System V manuals (was Re: What real non-UNIX 'C' compilers...)
Message-ID: <854@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 14:49:33 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  3 14:49:33 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Oct-87 07:10:04 EDT
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Summary: Generic Manual.

In article <29585@sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>>First of all, the generic System 5 release 2 manual are arranged the same way
>>as the SVID.
> Which allegedly "generic" version are you referring to?

"The UNIX System Users Manual". Copyright 1986 AT&T, published by Prentice-
Hall. ISBN 0-13-938242-9 025. Distributed to bookstores all over the country
as the official AT&T System V manual. It's spiral-bound with a white spine
and a red cover.

> > Other differences between read and fread (and write and fwrite) include:
> ...*none* of which have to do with "fread" being a library routine!
> "read" could be a library routine (e.g., in Doug Gwyn's S5 emulation package
> for 4BSD systems) and still have the same characteristics described.

"read" could not be a library routine and still have the desirable feature of
leaving the external file descriptor pointing at the last character read, unless
it's implemented by doing character-at-a-time I/O. Pretty inefficient. I don't
have the list with me, but at least this difference is related to read being
a system call.

PS: If you want to reply, send mail. I don't read comp.unix.wizards any more.
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