Files.md

• In Linux file descriptors (FD) are just a number that identifies some system entity.
• In Windows, the WIN32 API uses custom type such as 'HANDLE' to refer to files or a custom type for other items such as Sockets.
  • These are typedefs of basics like int.
  • Similar to FDs but as generic
• Streams are represented with the keyword FILE.
  • must be closed with fclose

Generic File functions

//file get string
fgets
//file put string
fputs
//read bytes
fread
//write bytes
fwrite