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  15 <H1>Chapter 12: Input and Output</H1>
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  17 <p>So far, we've been calling <TT>printf</TT>
  18 to print formatted output to the ``standard output''
  19 (wherever that is).
  20 We've also been calling <TT>getchar</TT>
  21 to read single characters from the ``standard input,''
  22 and <TT>putchar</TT> to write single characters to the standard output.
  23 ``Standard input'' and ``standard output''
  24 are two predefined I/O <dfn>streams</dfn>
  25 which are implicitly available to us.
  26 In this chapter
  27 we'll learn how to take control of input and output
  28 by opening
  29 our own streams,
  30 perhaps connected to data files,
  31 which we can
  32 read from and write to.
  33 </p><p><a href="sx12a.html" rel=subdocument>12.1 File Pointers and <TT>fopen</TT></a></p>
  34 <p><a href="sx12b.html" rel=subdocument>12.2 I/O with File Pointers</a></p>
  35 <p><a href="sx12c.html" rel=subdocument>12.3 Predefined Streams</a></p>
  36 <p><a href="sx12d.html" rel=subdocument>12.4 Closing Files</a></p>
  37 <p><a href="sx12e.html" rel=subdocument>12.5 Example: Reading a Data File</a></p>
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