> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
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>
> No, it's not a perfect pointer. You cannot have a variable of type
> FILE. FILE has to be treated as an opaque type. The actual
> definition is only there to allow some optimizations. But the object
> pointed to by the pointer returned by fopen() is not really of type
> FILE. There is a lot of hidden information and you would not copy
> this over with the copy to an object of type FILE.
>
Okay thanks.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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