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Subject: Re: File Pointer.
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 19:58:25 GMT
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hank_heng wrote:

>  If I have a File Pointer, how do I know I that file pointer is still
>pointing to a stream or it is already close ?

I don't think you can if you don't keep track of it.  If it's difficult
to keep track of this in your program then perhaps you could set the
pointer equal to NULL every time you close a file:

    fclose(fp);
    fp=NULL;

That way you can easily check whether or not the pointer is still valid.

S.