kannan@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (R. Kannan) (07/22/89)
fdopen can be used to convert file descriptor to a FILE pointer fileno can be used to convert a FILE pointer to file descriptor A file descriptor is returned by open and used by dup, write, read etc A FILE pointer is returned by fopen and used fprintf, fscanf , fget* and printf and scanf (implicitly). this is in response to some netters question about conversion from FILE pointers to file descriptors and vice versa.. --kannan :wq