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From: dtynan@altos86.UUCP (Dermot Tynan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minimal version of C-Library in MINIX-ST??
Summary: The 'real' Version 7.
Keywords: fopen dumb
Message-ID: <1086@altos86.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 02:50:12 GMT
References: <284@nixpbe.UUCP> <198@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Altos, San Jose, CA
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In article <198@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (news) writes:
	[Discussion of fopen(file, "r+")...]
> 
>   What did the real version 7 have?  Maybe it was somewhat small (primitive)
> just like MINIX.
> 

I checked my copy of the V7 manual on this issue not so long ago.  According
to the "V7 Bible", only 'r', 'w' and 'a' are supported.  However, the NEWS
source has '#ifdef V7' all over the place, and no special code to work around
the "r+" problem.  I posted something to news.software.b, and got the reply
that V7 does indeed support "r+", it is just undocumented.  Have fun...
						- Der
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