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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:05:41 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT gotadsl DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Use of FILE in sprintf/sscanf
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Hello.

Esa A E Peuha wrote:
> The sprintf and sscanf funcion families use FILE objects to point to
> strings.  However, there is no reason why these functions should know
> what is inside FILE; the act of "opening" a string as file can be
> abstracted as follows:
[snip]

The code you committed for this was not the same as the code you posted. 
If you're going to commit different code, please say why in a message to 
djgpp-workers.

Incidentally, I don't understand why it was commmitted to CVS, when Eli 
was not happy with it.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/ ]

"You can't evaluate a man by logic alone."
   -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", Star Trek