Manpage of PUTW

PUTW

Section: NEWLIB (3)
Updated: 2005 Feb 23
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NAME

3.36 `putw'--write a word (int)

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdio.h>
int putw(int W, FILE *FP);

DESCRIPTION

`putw' is a function, defined in `stdio.h'. You can use `putw' to write a word to the file or stream identified by FP. As a side effect, `putw' advances the file's current position indicator.

RETURNS Zero on success, `EOF' on failure.

PORTABILITY

`putw' is a remnant of K&R C, it is not part of any ISO C Standard. `fwrite' should be used instead. In fact, this implementation of `putw' is based upon `fwrite'.

Supporting OS subroutines required: `fwrite'.