Re: writing logfile

[Mat Harris <mat.harris@genestate.com>]

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i thought it was something along those lines. so i need to do dot-to-dot
with the functions. i will read up on that in a mo

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:09:37 -0300, William N. Zanatta wrote:
> 
>    Wow it is a mess! Time to get the old book, sit down and read some 
> more...
> 
>    You are opening a file through open() which returns an integer 
> representation of the file descriptor and trying to write on it through 
> fputs() which writes to a file descriptor represented by a FILE pointer.
> 
>    That's your answer. You are using the wrong functions.
> 
>    You may either change your code to work with integers, open(), read() 
>   write() and close() or make it use FILE *, fopen(), fread() (...), 
> fputs() (...) and fclose(). It is up to you and will depends on the kind 
> of application you're writing.
> 
>    Each of the ways of file manipulation has advantages and/or 
> disadvantages. You should seek for something about that over the net.
> 
>    ">   loghandle = open(logfile, O_CREAT);"
> 
>    Maybe I'm wrong, but I think this previous call just creates a file 
> and doesn't make it available for reading/writing in any way. Is that 
> right brothers???
> 
>    william
> 
> -- 
> Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise.
>                  -- Keith Packard

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