From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, June 17, 2021 at 4:30:03 AM UTC+10, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
      
   > Now, even if such syntax were supported by fopen in your   
   > faux C90-land, consider how you would use that file descriptor;   
   > does the application need to handle the NNTP protocol, or does   
   > your DOS operating system handle the NNTP protocol (and any   
   > other URI scheme that you support such as HTTP, SMTP, POP,   
   > IMAP etc et alia) on behalf of the application.   
      
   The application needs to handle it. I'm not sure how   
   it makes sense for a C library (with or without the aid   
   of the OS) to handle the internal protocol details of   
   random protocols. You wouldn't need fread() you would   
   need some sort of complicated non-C90 function that   
   retrieves tokenized data.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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