Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Minimal version of C-Library in MINIX-ST??
Message-ID: <1989May5.175443.21447@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <284@nixpbe.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5 May 89 17:54:43 GMT

In article <284@nixpbe.UUCP> mboen@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening) writes:
>In the Minix sources the fopen-Routine doesn't scan the whole modestring
>though. It just looks at the first character. As a result, only three modes
>are supported:
> 'w' -> create file
> 'r' -> read file
> 'a' -> write to file (append)
>
>My question: is the library supplied with MINIX-ST a minimal version? Has
>this been fixed? ...

Here again, Andy is being V7-compatible at the expense of more recent
developments.  V7 did not support the "+" modes.  (Actually, the code
did them but the documentation did not mention them.)  Any modern C
implementation should do them, however.
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