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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: magic cookies given back by ftell, and used in fseek
Message-ID: <7971@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 26 May 88 17:31:19 GMT
References: <129@lakart.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <129@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
-... have the ANSI comittee considered providing some means to convert
-from cookie format to and from character position in file.

This is required for binary streams, but not for text streams.

-Am I correct in perceiving that this arises in a similar
-manner to the fact that on some segmented architectures (e.g. 8088) there
-are many different ways of pointing to the same address, ...

Yes, you have the right idea.