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From: dave@micropen (David F. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: is this wise?
Summary: sure thing...
Keywords: /dev/stdin, /dev/hosts
Message-ID: <693@micropen>
Date: 3 May 89 13:34:30 GMT
References: <378@chessene.UUCP>
Organization: Micropen Dirent Writing Systems, Pittsford, NY
Lines: 17

In article <378@chessene.UUCP>, root@chessene.UUCP (Mark Buda) writes:
! Consider this (and ignore the lack of error checking):
! 
! FILE *f;
! f = fopen("/dev/hosts/uunet.uu.net/tcp/79", "r+");
! fprintf(f, "\r\n");
! fclose(f);
! 
! There. Isn't that much nicer than sockets?

Writing on a FILE opened for reading is never nicer than sockets.

-- 
David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc.
micropen!dave@ee.rochester.edu

"The faster I go, the behinder I get." --Lewis Carroll