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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re:  Writing to A NON-Existing File in \"C\"
Message-ID: <10807@jade.BBN.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 88 21:28:51 GMT
References: <12860@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
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In comp.unix.wizards (<12860@brl-adm.ARPA>), drears@ardec.arpa (Dennis G. Rears 
(FSAC)) writes:
>Here is sample code that will allow you to do this. It will exit
>if it can't open for appending any file.  If it can not stat the
>file it assumes it doesn't exist.  You can be fancy and check errno
>though.

>#define NULL	  "/dev/null/"

Probably want to pick another name for /dev/null, tho... :-)
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