PE> if(( in = fopen("files.20", "rt")) == NULL) {

PE> Oh, this should be "r", not "rt". Scribble
"rt" out of whatever
PE> book you found that in.

BL> I tried it both ways and it didn't make any difference. Borland is

Try it on the CSET compiler (from memory) and see how far you get.

BL> I hereby release nullzero.c to the Paul Edwards domain. Now you can
BL> do whatever you like with it.

BL> It was interesting going back to C after so long, and I can see why
BL> people like writing the code. Pascal is verbose by comparison (which
BL> is why it's easier to read), but I still prefer the Pascal approach. 
BL> And the Pascal compiler is about 10-times faster! And similar code is
BL> smaller.

Look at the generated object code to see whether the code actually
generates worse assembler.  For .exe size comparison, you either need to
strip out some of the baggage that comes with C (or make sure you don't
drag it in!), or do a real test, which is use a big program, where the
runtime support is bugger-all.  BFN.  Paul. 
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