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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pascal --> C question
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Date: 24 Mar 88 16:03:00 GMT
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>In article <225800016@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>a flush terminates a record.

>Show me where any accepted standard for C says that fflush()
>introduces a record delimiter.

Nowhere. As far as I can recall, I have never seen the concept of a record
discussed in any C reference. The IO system of C seems oblivious to records.
Thus, as a corollary, if by some chance a C standard io stream gets 
connected to a file that isn't stream, the results would be "system dependent",
which implies that the implementer CAN'T BE WRONG! If VMS C connects to
stream-LF files, then, and only then, would a flush be broken.

Doug Gwyn: Are you here? Is that correct? What does ANSI C say about
record-oriented files?

Doug McDonald