>Hi all,
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>When using FOPEN, there are the options for read only or buffered/unbuffered.
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>If I am just reading a static file on disk, that is not open by anyone else, should I used buffered or unbuffered. I am asking because the help file does not really say what buffering does so hard to know which to use. Does buffered means the file is loaded into memory? I only need to read the first 1000 bytes of a file before doing something else with the whole file.
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>Thanks,
>Albert

#1 buffered. but check FFLUSH.
#2 why low level? Is there something FILETOSTR / STRTOFILE can not do? Like file to large? Else those both are much more easy then the low level functions.
#3 I use fopen only to lock a file / check locking, never to read / write.