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Date: 2008jan2
Platform: win32
Language: C

Q.  How can I get a Windows HANDLE from a standard C FILE * ?

A.  Like this:

main()
{
	FILE	*f;
	HANDLE	handle;

	f = fopen("myfile.txt", "r");
	handle = (HANDLE) _get_osfhandle(fileno(f));
}

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