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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Writing to A NON-Existing File in "C"
Message-ID: <Apr.7.20.51.10.1988.22906@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 88 00:51:11 GMT
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Keywords: C program, NON-EXISTING File, flushed results

Contemplate the following:

    fd = open("file", 1);
    if(fd == -1)
	    fd = open("/dev/null", 1);