Subject: Re: Need help with c! Approved: clc AT plethora DOT net References: From: phaywood AT aardvark DOT apana DOT org DOT au DOT STOP DOT SPAM (Peter "Shaggy" Haywood) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Organization: Teragen Internet Solutions, Melbourne Australia Lines: 26 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.c.moderated Message-ID: Originator: clcm AT plethora DOT net (Comp Lang C'Moderated) Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 18:16:42 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.166.146.5 X-Trace: ptah.visi.com 917979402 205.166.146.5 (Tue, 02 Feb 1999 12:16:42 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 12:16:42 CDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Groovy hepcat Marp was jivin' on Sun, 24 Jan 1999 04:37:25 GMT in comp.lang.c.moderated. Re: Need help with c!'s a cool scene! Dig it! >Get rid of the word static in front of FILE *fptr because that should be >able to change as you work with the file. If it can't change it won't work >properly. What does static have to do with changing something? You were confusing it with const, perhaps? An object declared static has 3 special properties: 1) duration from the time the program starts until it finishes, 2) initialisation to 0 (zero) by default, and 3) visability within: a) a function if defined within the function, or b) the translation unit (C source file, module) in which it is defined if defined outside of any functions. -- ----- Dig the EVEN NEWER, MORE IMPROVED news sig!! ----- -------------- Shaggy was here! --------------- http://aardvark.apana.org.au/~phaywood/ ============= Ain't I'm a dawg!! ============== -- comp.lang.c.moderated - clcm AT plethora DOT net