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.\" @(#)stdio.3 8.7 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
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.\"
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.TH STDIO 3 "15 September 1997" GNO "Library Routines"
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.SH NAME
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.BR stdio
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\- standard input/output library functions
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.br
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#include <stdio.h>
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.br
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FILE *stdin;
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.br
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FILE *stdout;
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.br
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FILE *stderr;
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The standard I/O library provides a simple and efficient buffered stream
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I/O interface.
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Input and output is mapped into logical data streams
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and the physical I/O
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characteristics are concealed. The functions and macros are listed
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below; more information is available from the individual man pages.
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.LP
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A stream is associated with an external file (which may be a physical
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device) by
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.IR opening
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a file, which may involve creating a new file. Creating an
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existing file causes its former contents to be discarded.
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If a file can support positioning requests (such as a disk file, as opposed
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to a terminal) then a
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.IR "file position indicator"
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associated with the stream is positioned at the start of the file (byte
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zero), unless the file is opened with append mode. If append mode
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is used, the position indicator will be placed the end-of-file.
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The position indicator is maintained by subsequent reads, writes
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and positioning requests. All input occurs as if the characters
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were read by successive calls to the
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.BR fgetc (3)
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function; all output takes place as if all characters were
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read by successive calls to the
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.BR fputc (3)
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function.
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.LP
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A file is disassociated from a stream by
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.IR closing
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the file.
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Output streams are flushed (any unwritten buffer contents are transferred
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to the host environment) before the stream is disassociated from the file.
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The value of a pointer to a
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.BR FILE
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object is indeterminate after a file is closed (garbage).
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.LP
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A file may be subsequently reopened, by the same or another program
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execution, and its contents reclaimed or modified (if it can be repositioned
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at the start). If the main function returns to its original caller, or
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the
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.BR exit (3)
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function is called, all open files are closed (hence all output
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streams are flushed) before program termination. Other methods
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of program termination, such as
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.BR abort (3)
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do not bother about closing files properly.
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.LP
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This implementation makes a distinction between
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.I text
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and
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.I binary
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streams. For text streams, all carrige returns are mapped to linefeeds
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during input, and all linefeeds are mapped to carrige returns on output.
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No extra padding appears on any stream.
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.LP
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At program startup, three streams are predefined and need not be
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opened explicitly:
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.RS
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.IR "standard input"
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(for reading conventional input),
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.br
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.IR "standard output"
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(for writing conventional output), and
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.br
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.IR "standard error"
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(for writing diagnostic output).
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.RE
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These streams are abbreviated
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.IR stdin ,
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.IR stdout ,
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and
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.IR stderr .
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Initially, the standard error stream
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is unbuffered; the standard input and output streams are
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fully buffered if and only if the streams do not refer to
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an interactive or
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.I terminal
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device, as determined by the
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.BR isatty (3)
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function.
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In fact,
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.IR all
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freshly-opened streams that refer to terminal devices
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default to line buffering, and
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pending output to such streams is written automatically
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whenever an such an input stream is read.
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Note that this applies only to
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.IR "true reads" ;
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if the read request can be satisfied by existing buffered data,
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no automatic flush will occur.
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In these cases,
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or when a large amount of computation is done after printing
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part of a line on an output terminal, it is necessary to
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.BR fflush (3)
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the standard output before going off and computing so that the output
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will appear.
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Alternatively, these defaults may be modified via the
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.BR setvbuf (3)
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function.
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.LP
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The
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.BR stdio
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library is a part of the library
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.BR libc
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and routines are automatically loaded as needed by the linker.
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The
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.BR SYNOPSIS
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sections of the following manual pages indicate which include files
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are to be used, what the compiler declaration for the function
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looks like and which external variables are of interest.
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.LP
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The following are defined as macros;
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these names may not be re-used
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without first removing their current definitions with
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.BR #undef :
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.BR BUFSIZ ,
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.BR EOF ,
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.BR FILENAME_MAX ,
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.BR FOPEN_MAX ,
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.BR L_cuserid ,
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.BR L_ctermid ,
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.BR L_tmpnam,
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.BR NULL ,
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.BR SEEK_END ,
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.BR SEEK_SET ,
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.BR SEE_CUR ,
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.BR TMP_MAX ,
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.BR clearerr ,
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.BR feof ,
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.BR ferror ,
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.BR fileno ,
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.BR freopen ,
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.BR fwopen ,
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.BR getc ,
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.BR getchar ,
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.BR putc ,
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.BR putchar ,
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.BR stderr ,
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.BR stdin ,
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.BR stdout .
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Function versions of the macro functions
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.BR feof ,
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.BR ferror ,
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.BR clearerr ,
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.BR fileno ,
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.BR getc ,
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.BR getchar ,
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.BR putc ,
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and
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.BR putchar
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exist and will be used if the macros
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definitions are explicitly removed.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR open (2),
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.BR close (2),
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.BR read (2),
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.BR write (2)
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.SH BUGS
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The standard buffered functions do not interact well with certain other
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library and system functions, especially
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.BR fork (2),
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.BR fork2 (2),
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.BR vfork (2),
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and
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.BR abort (3).
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.SH STANDARDS
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The
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.BR stdio
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library conforms to ANSI/C.
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.SH LIST OF FUNCTIONS
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.nf
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Function Description
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-------- -----------
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clearerr check and reset stream status
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fclose close a stream
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fdopen stream open functions
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feof check and reset stream status
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ferror check and reset stream status
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fflush flush a stream
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fgetc get next character or word from input stream
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fgetln get a line from a stream
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fgetpos reposition a stream
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fgets get a line from a stream
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fileno check and reset stream status
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fopen stream open functions
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fprintf formatted output conversion
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fpurge flush a stream
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fputc output a character or word to a stream
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fputs output a line to a stream
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fread binary stream input/output
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freopen stream open functions
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fropen open a stream
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fscanf input format conversion
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fseek reposition a stream
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fsetpos reposition a stream
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ftell reposition a stream
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funopen open a stream
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fwopen open a stream
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fwrite binary stream input/output
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getc get next character or word from input stream
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getchar get next character or word from input stream
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gets get a line from a stream
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getw get next character or word from input stream
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mkstemp create unique temporary file
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mktemp create unique temporary file
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perror system error messages
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printf formatted output conversion
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putc output a character or word to a stream
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putchar output a character or word to a stream
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puts output a line to a stream
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putw output a character or word to a stream
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remove remove directory entry
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rewind reposition a stream
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scanf input format conversion
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setbuf stream buffering operations
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setbuffer stream buffering operations
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setlinebuf stream buffering operations
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setvbuf stream buffering operations
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snprintf formatted output conversion
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sprintf formatted output conversion
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sscanf input format conversion
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strerror system error messages
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sys_errlist system error messages
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sys_nerr system error messages
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tempnam temporary file routines
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tmpfile temporary file routines
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tmpnam temporary file routines
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ungetc un-get character from input stream
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vfprintf formatted output conversion
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vfscanf input format conversion
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vprintf formatted output conversion
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vscanf input format conversion
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vsnprintf formatted output conversion
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vsprintf formatted output conversion
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vsscanf input format conversion
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.fi
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