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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: System V manuals (was Re: What real non-UNIX 'C' compilers...)
Message-ID: <6574@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 08:00:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6574
Posted: Mon Oct 19 08:00:57 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Oct-87 02:05:32 EDT
References: <855@sugar.UUCP> <29930@sun.uucp> <867@sugar.UUCP> <30458@sun.uucp> <876@sugar.UUCP> <129@nusdhub.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <129@nusdhub.UUCP> rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.) writes:
>If you want to then use read() against it you must manually
>push a streams-module that will properly react to the read()
>calls.

The explanation from which the above was extracted is totally bogus.

read() and fread() are not necessarily associated with STREAMS
(AT&T terminology), but fread() is associated with a "stream"
(ANSI C terminology), which is nothing more than data accessed
via a FILE structure.