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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: C/UNIX low level I/O
Keywords: C, I/O, open, fopen
Message-ID: <8823@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Nov 88 18:13:41 GMT
References: <6695@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <6695@pyr.gatech.EDU> david@pyr.gatech.edu (David Brown) writes:
> My question: is there a better way to do this?  I've thought of using 
> higher-level I/O routines like fprintf, but I think they would be
> less efficient. But less efficient than what I'm doing now?

fputs() and fprintf() will undoubtedly be significantly faster than
write(), and more portable besides.