Date:	Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:28:36 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Dennis Yelle <dennis51 AT jps DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Challenge for C++ programmers:
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Dennis Yelle wrote:

> Here is the relevant line from the header file:
>     int in_avail() { return _IO_read_end - _IO_read_ptr; }
> 
> I guess that is not EXACTLY useless, but it is far from
> what I had hoped for.

Thanks for looking this up.

The question is now: what does the C++ standard say about in_avail?  If 
the above does exactly what the standard says, then obviously in_avail is 
not a soluion to this problem.  But if it *should* be a solution, then we 
could easily fix it.

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