maybe a long time ago this was a sensible function to have... but i wonder why this is here at all? myself from the 1990s would wonder as well. file i/o functio

maybe a long time ago this was a sensible function to have... but i wonder why this is here at all? myself from the 1990s would wonder as well. file i/o functions in the c standard library make this a pointless exercise today... emacs. an anachronism made of other anachronisms...