problem with fread/fwrite

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

In article <402 at bally.Bally.COM>, siva at bally.Bally.COM (Siva Chelliah) writes:
> I do not remember reading 
> anywhere that I should do a fseek before fread/ fwrite.  Is that a bug in the 
> compiler or in my head ?  Please help.

It's in your head.  Basically the model is that a stream can be in one
of three states:
	undetermined
	reading
	writing
When you read from a stream, it should not be in 'writing' state.
When you write to a stream, it should not be in 'reading' state.
fseek() and rewind() put a stream back into 'undetermined' state.
This has been the case at least since V7 stdio, maybe longer.
Check your documentation again; it may be under "fopen" where the
meaning of r+ is explained.
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