[Mingw-users] Re: Reading files with g77

[Benjamin R. <b.r...@tu...>]

Hi Perry, all,

"amores perros" writes:
> So, does this codify a convention which has existed on Unix so long
> that it is ancestral to most other operating systems?

It codifies the behaviour of the traditional C runtime library.  As
most programs are written in C or in a language that is itself written
in C, this is the convention of a lot of programs, at least if you
care about portability.

benny