Oh yes, all those parameters are absolutely a pain to work with. But it can still be good to have an understanding of what options are abstracted away by fopen

Oh yes, all those parameters are absolutely a pain to work with. But it can still be good to have an understanding of what options are abstracted away by fopen etc. Trying to write an app only using <Windows.h> can be a good learning exercise if you want to understand the fundamentals of the OS.