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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/12852: Non-standard behavior of fread(3) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:13:18 +0200."
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On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:13:18 +0200, Robert Nordier wrote:

> There's no question this needs changing.  An ISO example actually
> reads along the lines of:

The question, though, is whether it needs changing _now_, or whether
this'll break a number of critical utilities that rely on the broken
behaviour. I can't imagine the latter case being true, but I thought it
safe to put to question before folks with more experience. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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