Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:22:47 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: stdio writing to a string
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On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> I notice that DJGPP's `sprintf' uses some undocumented flags of the `FILE'
> struct to get a string accessed like a stream. Can these be documented, or
> perhaps some higher-level mechanism made available to use this ability? I
> can think of several cases in which it would be convenient.

IMHO, the main question is: do we want this to be used by application 
code?  If we do, then it should be documented.