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Date: | Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:11:57 +0200 |
To: | Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> |
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From: | "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker on 13 Jul 2000 14:43:21 GMT) | |
Subject: | Re: Pipe to sendmail (again) |
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> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp > Date: 13 Jul 2000 14:43:21 GMT > > In my not so humble opinion, '_fmode' is one of the silliest things > DOS compilers ever came up with. It may have had its uses back in the > days before ANSI C, but they should have retracted this feature back > in 1990, at the latest. It serves no useful purpose that can't be > achieved by other, standard-conforming ways, too. It is not always practical to change every call to `open', `fopen', `fdopen', and `popen' in a large program ported from Unix. This is when `_fmode' comes in handy.
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