magic cookies given back by ftell, and used in fseek

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <129 at lakart.UUCP> dg at lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
-... have the ANSI comittee considered providing some means to convert
-from cookie format to and from character position in file.

This is required for binary streams, but not for text streams.

-Am I correct in perceiving that this arises in a similar
-manner to the fact that on some segmented architectures (e.g. 8088) there
-are many different ways of pointing to the same address, ...

Yes, you have the right idea.