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diff --git a/devel/sfio/DESCR b/devel/sfio/DESCR index 1756231df33..292156226dc 100644 --- a/devel/sfio/DESCR +++ b/devel/sfio/DESCR @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Sfio is a portable library for managing I/O streams. It provides similar functionality to the ANSI C Standard I/O functions known collectively as Stdio. However, it has a distinct interface and is generally faster and more robust than most Stdio implementations. -(For backward compatibility, Sfio provides two Stdio emulation packages.) +(For backward compatibility, Sfio provides two Stdio emulation packages.) Sfio also introduces a number of new features and concepts beyond Stdio stream I/O processing: @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ Stdio stream I/O processing: + Robust handling of variable-sized records, and + Extensible printf/scanf-like formatting I/O operations. -The current distribution of Sfio is Sfio1998. The library handles 64-bit -streams on platforms that support 64-bit files. The formatting family of -functions (e.g., sfprintf() and sfscanf()) have been extended so that -applications can redefine the meanings of predefined patterns as well as +The current distribution of Sfio is Sfio1998. The library handles 64-bit +streams on platforms that support 64-bit files. The formatting family of +functions (e.g., sfprintf() and sfscanf()) have been extended so that +applications can redefine the meanings of predefined patterns as well as define new patterns. |