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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.