Date:	Sun, 19 Oct 1997 16:49:48 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: sprintf() string length?
In-Reply-To:	<628u5q$bki$1@news.ox.ac.uk>
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On 17 Oct 1997, George Foot wrote:

> One thing I'm not sure of is whether the character count includes expansions
> of LF -> CRLF (or is it CR -> CRLF?), which a text file on a DOS system would
> do automatically.

The count does NOT include the added CR characters, because they are
added by the low-level I/O functions, not by `fprintf'.  And if you care 
about this, you could always open /dev/null in binary mode.

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