Subject: Re: Tinderbox tyrant (wv issues)
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 15 2000 - 13:26:01 CDT
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Eric W. Sink wrote:
> I'm not sure my opinion carries much weight in this forum anymore, but
> if it did, said opinion would look like this:
Well, I certainly hope you opinion on coding still carries weight.
And even if it didn't, I hope everyone abides by this opinion
anyway. Win95 is *not* a POSIX system, and should not be treated as such.
>
> read, write, and open are NOT standard C, and their use is NOT
> acceptable
> in XP sections of AbiWord. These are UNIX system calls which happen to
> have been widely implemented on other systems, with varying degrees of
> true portability. Their counterparts include things like
> FSOpen/HOpen (Mac), and OpenFile (Win32).
sam th
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