>Of course, and that's truly the proper answer.  I ended up doing just
>such a thing because fread and fwrite didn't act the way I wanted them
>to.  How many hack^H^H^H^Hprogrammers out there have written their own
>bread(), bwrite() and bseek() routines?  Or, to reduce the numbers of
>hands shown, how many _haven't_ done so?

The only time I *ever* did this was for a friendly front-end on pipes.
I have otherwise mostly used getchar for input.

-s