On Mar 21, 2012 4:21 AM, "Dirk Laurie" <dirk.laurie @ gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> explain clearly
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> That answer is a straight quote from the official manpage that comes with Gnu C.
> It's my nice, polite way of not quite saying RTFM.
http:// en.cppreference.com /w/ cpp /io/c/ fopen is significantly better. I find the Linux man page text confusing as well.
Better text is in the newlib manual.
http:// sourceware.org / newlib / libc.html # fopen
Jay