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NAME
freopen - close (if necessary) and reopen a filestream
SYNOPSIS
freopen(fs, mode) or freopen(fs, mode, filename)
TYPES
fs open or closed file stream
mode one of the strings "r", "w", "a", "r+", "w+, "a+"
filename string
return null or error value
DESCRIPTION
With two arguments, this function closes the file stream fs and
attempts to reopen it with the specified mode. A non-null value
is returned only if the attempt fails.
With three arguments, fs, if open, is closed, and an attempt is made to
open the file with the specified name and assign it to the stream
fs. A non-null value is returned only if the attempt fails.
EXAMPLE
> f = fopen("/tmp/junk", "w")
> fputs(f, "Leonard Euler")
> freopen(f, "r")
> fgets(f)
"Leonard Euler"
> !chmod u-w /tmp/junk
> freopen(f, "w")
Error 10013
LIMITS
none - XXX - is this correct?
LIBRARY
none - XXX - is this correct?
SEE ALSO
errno, fclose, feof, ferror, fflush, fgetc, fgetline, fgets, files, fopen,
fprintf, fputc, fputs, fseek, fsize, ftell, isfile, printf, prompt