osd7@homxa.UUCP (Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz) (03/28/85)
From: Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz (The Moderator) <cbosgd!std-c>
mod.std.c Digest Wed, 27 Mar 85 Volume 4 : Issue 20
Today's Topics:
ftell/lseek is a magic cookie?
RAD50 (for trivia fans)
time for new topics
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 85 03:32 EST
From: Paul Schauble <ucbvax!Schauble@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA>
Subject: ftell/lseek is a magic cookie?
To: cbosgd!std-c@BERKELEY
If you are not supposed to know what the position given to lseek is,
what is the procedure for locating a record in a fixed length record
file. That is, what is the equivalent of
long whereis
whereis = record_number * record_size;
lseek ( , whereis, ...);
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 85 21:03:03 est
From: seismo!hadron!jsdy (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Subject: RAD50 (for trivia fans)
To: std-c@cbosgd.ATT.UUCP
I have been reminded that, for rad-50, one only uses 3 chars
at a time and fits them into a 16-bit word. *sigh*
Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{ARPA,UUCP}
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 85 12:48:00 est
From: cbosgd!std-c (The Moderator)
Subject: time for new topics
To: osd7
OK, we are running out of things to say about ftell, etc.
Please send new material.
The Moderator
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End of mod.std.c Digest - Wed, 27 Mar 85 12:49:40 EST
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