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   9 <title>section 7.8.3: Ungetc</title>
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  15 <H2>section 7.8.3: Ungetc</H2>
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  17 <p>There's not much more to say about <TT>ungetc</TT>,
  18 but two more stdio functions which
  19 might
  20 deserve mention are
  21 <TT>fread</TT> and <TT>fwrite</TT>.
  22 </p><p><TT>getc</TT> and <TT>putc</TT>
  23 (and <TT>getchar</TT> and <TT>putchar</TT>)
  24 allow you to read and write a character at a time,
  25 while
  26 <TT>fgets</TT> and <TT>fputs</TT> read and write a line at a time.
  27 The <TT>printf</TT> family of routines does formatted output,
  28 and the <TT>scanf</TT> family does formatted input.
  29 But what if you want to read or write a big block of
  30 unformatted characters, not necessarily one line long?
  31 You could use <TT>getc</TT> or <TT>putc</TT> in a loop,
  32 but another solution is to use
  33 the <TT>fread</TT> and <TT>fwrite</TT> functions,
  34 which are
  35 (briefly) described in appendix B1.5 on page 247.
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