From:	chan AT turing DOT scs DOT carleton DOT ca (Yuet-Ning Chan)
Subject:	Re: page
To:	dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 93 12:20:54 EDT
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> 
> fseek is capable of seeking relative to the current position:
> 
> skip_backward(int file, int amount)
> {
>   fseek(file, -amount, 1);
> }
> 
> Zero says from the begining, one is from current, two is from end.
> Negative amounts mean backward.
> 
The problem is how do I find out what is amount?
I can't read backward to find out where is the starting point
of a page.
 

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