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From: jeroen@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Fokker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Creating a file in C
Keywords: Fcreate, Fopen, slow
Message-ID: <2275@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 8 Jan 90 14:58:25 GMT
Organization: University of Utrecht, Dept. of CS
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I want to open a file in R/W mode and be sure that it is empty.
Here's how I do this now:

	Fdelete(name);			(1)
	handle = Fcreate(name,0);	(2)
	Fclose(handle);			(3)
	handle = Fopen(name,2);		(4)

It is remarkably slow. Is there a better way to do it?
If I leave out line 3&4, how does the Atari know I need R/W mode?
If I leave out line 1, won't there be two copies of the file?
If I leave out line 3, wouldn't I get two different file-descriptors?

Please reply by e-mail to  jeroen@cs.ruu.nl
Thanks in advance!
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Jeroen Fokker, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands