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Date:	Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:44:19 +0200
From:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: SFIO: A Safe/Fast I/O Library
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Hallo Gerrit,

>> http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/sfio/

>> They ported it to UWIN and Windows too.

>> It builds OOTB, I compiled Perl using libsfio.a and all
>> tests are still passing successful.

> Oops, I didn't saw this in the log:

> "perl5 can use the sfio library, but it is experimental.
> You seem to have sfio available, do you want to try using it? [n]  
> Ok, avoiding sfio this time.  I'll use stdio instead.
> Removing unneeded -lsfio from library list"

>> Would it be worth a try to use sfio on Cygwin?

> I'll try a build with sfio now.

Hmm, it doesn't work with Perl, also it makes no sense for Perl since
there is PERLIO now;)

But that doesn't mean that it could be useful for other applications.


Gerrit
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