C File Handling - File Pointers

C communicates with files using a new datatype called a file pointer. This type is defined within stdio.h, and written as FILE *. A file pointer called output_file is declared in a statement like

  FILE *output_file;

• Opening a file pointer using fopen
• Standard file pointers in UNIX
• Closing a file using fclose

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