Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: xseek(y,z,0) .vs. xseek(y,z,1)
Message-ID: <1988Jun7.162241.14545@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: How does it work?  Is one faster?
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6463@shamash.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 88 16:22:41 GMT

In most implementations it isn't going to make any difference, because the
1 case is converted into the 0 case before anything else is done.  It's
strictly a convenience issue, unless your files are so huge that a long
isn't big enough to describe them.
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