Re: file positioning

From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld_at_apollo.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 15:12:11 -0500

From: marcoxa_at_MOSAIC.CS.NYU.EDU (Marco Antoniotti)
Subject: Re: file positioning
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 95 14:13:18 EST

> 'fseek' does not exist in C. It is an OS feature.

That's nonsense.

`fseek' is a standard part of the Standard C run-time library, which
should be present in all "hosted" implementations of C. If fseek
isn't part of C, neither is printf or malloc.

> BTW I'm missing something like rewind() (in C) too.
>
> Same as above. 'rewind' is not a C function.

Sure it is; it's defined on the same page of the standard as fseek()
is.

*Scheme* doesn't include random-access I/O in its standard run-time
library, but C does.

                                                - Bill
Received on Mon Feb 06 1995 - 21:14:25 CET