Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:47:57 -0400
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id: <199606270047.UAA17772@delorie.com>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960626135406.8061A-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 26 Jun 1996 13:56:24 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: FSE, some questions


> Why would you want to call `_close'?  After all, `fd' is not a file 
> handle, so why call a function that only knows about true file handles?  

As per my previous email, `fd' *is* a real file handle.  It's opened
on "nul" to be a placeholder.