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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Don't use Scanf()
Message-ID: <1988Mar23.183010.1011@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: C stdio library
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2401@ihwpt.ATT.COM> <320@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 88 18:30:10 GMT

> Paranthetically, it is good practice to gather all of your fopens, opens,
> etc, together in a few well defined places in portable code...

This turns out to be a good idea for another reason:  if you seriously care
about good-quality error handling, it almost always needs to be customized
to your program to some extent, and things are much simpler if the error
handling for things like fopen is centralized.
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