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From: Elizabeth Taylor <mail@ezbooks.com.au>
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I tried using write to a file along the following lines:

char buffer[20];
strycpy(buffer, "These words");;
create("abc",0700);
write(0,buffer,20);

but it wrote to the screen.  Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong.



