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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: a couple of random questions
Message-ID: <3533@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 18 Apr 88 21:05:49 GMT
References: <530@vsi.UUCP> <10426@steinmetz.ge.com> <541@vsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <541@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>[in ANSI fseek()] the offset is defined to be in characters.

This is true for binary streams only.  The offset for a text stream must be
either zero or (with SEEK_SET) the cookie returned by ftell().

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint