duplicate filedes for open file

[Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E]

Thanks to all who responded with help for my problem (get a C "FILE *ptr" for an
FORTRAN opened file).

The gist of the responces were search thru all possible fildes for the
appropriate one. While this would work, I found another solution.

I initiallly didn't want to re-open the file in the C routine (I thought that
this would cause problems). I have since tried this and found no problem. 

Therefore, that is what I have done. My C routine does the following:
	take as a parameter the filename to be opened,
	copies the name into a C string (and adds a '\0')
	opens the file
	does the read
	closes the file.

This works fine.

Thanks again.

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			    Michael J. Chinni
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