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High-level file routines

You can recognise most of the high-level input/output functions that operate on files because they begin with the letter f; for example, the high-level function for opening a file called fopen, as opposed to the low-level file-opening function open. Some of them are more generalized versions of functions with which you may already be familiar; for example, the function fprintf behaves like the familiar printf, but takes an additional parameter -- a stream -- and sends all its output to that stream instead of simply sending its output to stdout, as printf does.