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From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: problems with fopen in "nn" (streams in kernel?)
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In article <JPYHBFP@math.fu-berlin.de> pipes@knock1.mgh.harvard.edu (Robert A. Wheeler) writes:
>        f = fopen(name, "W");
>        and "W" indicates open (or create) for writing.

No, "w" indicates open for writing.  "W" doesn't indicate anything.

-- Richard
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