Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Pascal --> C question
Message-ID: <1988Mar18.215609.1001@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <12340@brl-adm.ARPA>, <2351@bsu-cs.UUCP>, <1988Mar15.020608.1331@utzoo.uucp>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 88 21:56:09 GMT

> Fflush has no business adding newlines, ever, and an fflush need not be
> interactive to be legitimate.  VMS C is broken.

Some folks who are more intimate with VMS C than I am have supplied an
update to this:  Rahul is simply wrong, VMS C does not do this.  Apparently
there are some oddities in file handling that might deceive the unwary into
thinking that something like this was happening, but it's not.
-- 
Those who do not understand Unix are |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
condemned to reinvent it, poorly.    | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry