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On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Richard Dawe wrote:

> What happens if _doprnt returns a negative number?

That's not possible, since there can be no output errors writing to a
string, and we can't have encoding errors yet.  But we might as well
prepare for the possibility of encoding errors, and in that case the
offset of the null character must be gotten from the FILE thing...

> Other than that, it looks fine to me. I'd prefer a slightly less cryptic
> name than "sopen", though - "stropen", "strbufopen"?

Yeah, stropen sounds good.

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Esa Peuha
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