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From: berry@loiosh.s1.gov (Berry Kercheval)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: is this wise?
Keywords: /dev/stdin, /dev/hosts
Message-ID: <24343@mordor.s1.gov>
Date: 4 May 89 00:11:42 GMT
References: <378@chessene.UUCP> <693@micropen>
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Reply-To: berry@loiosh.s1.gov (Berry Kercheval)
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In-reply-to: dave@micropen (David F. Carlson)

In article <693@micropen>, dave@micropen (David F Carlson) writes:
>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.

Um, try R'ing TFM.  That is opened for UPDATE (reading and writing).

  --berry