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Date: 2010may2
OS: Windows
Language: C/C++

Q.  Can I get a Windows HANDLE from a regular fopen() FILE * handle?

A.  This function does the trick:

	#include <io.h>

	HANDLE GetWindowsHandle(FILE *f)
	{
		return (HANDLE) _get_osfhandle(fileno(f));
	}

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