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37 #ifndef _futil_h
38 #define _futil_h
40 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
41 #include <config.h>
42 #endif
44 #include <stdio.h>
45 #include "typedefs.h"
47 #ifdef CPLUSPLUS
48 extern "C" {
49 #endif
51 extern void no_buffers(void);
52 /* Turn off buffering of files (which is default) for debugging purposes */
54 extern bool fexist(const char *fname);
55 /* Return TRUE when fname exists, FALSE otherwise */
57 extern bool eof(FILE *fp);
58 /* Return TRUE on end-of-file, FALSE otherwise */
60 extern bool is_pipe(FILE *fp);
61 /* Check whether the file (opened by ffopen) is a pipe */
63 extern char *backup_fn(const char *file);
64 /* Return a backup name for file (name with # before and after) */
66 /* Make a backup of file if necessary.
67 Return false if there was a problem.
69 extern bool make_backup(const char * file);
71 extern FILE *ffopen(const char *file,char *mode);
72 /* Return a valid file pointer when succesfull, exits otherwise
73 * If the file is in compressed format, open a pipe which uncompresses
74 * the file! Therefore, files must be closed with ffclose (see below)
77 extern void ffclose(FILE *fp);
78 /* Close files or pipes */
80 #define fclose ffclose
82 extern void frewind(FILE *fp);
83 /* Does not rewind pipes, but does so for normal files */
85 #define rewind frewind
87 bool is_pipe(FILE *fp);
89 extern FILE *uncompress(char *fn,char *mode);
90 extern FILE *gunzip(char *fn,char *mode);
91 /* Open a pipe to uncompress or unzip files. Must be closed with pclose */
93 extern const char *libfn(const char *file);
95 extern FILE *libopen(const char *file);
96 /* Open a library file for reading. This looks in the current directory
97 * first, and then in the library directory. If the file is not found,
98 * it terminates with a fatal_error
101 extern bool get_libdir(char *libdir);
103 extern const char *low_libfn(const char *file,bool bFatal);
105 extern FILE *low_libopen(const char *file,bool bFatal);
106 /* The same as the above, but does not terminate if (!bFatal) */
108 /* Create unique name for temp file (wrapper around mkstemp).
109 * Buf should be at least 7 bytes long
111 extern void gmx_tmpnam(char *buf);
113 #ifdef CPLUSPLUS
115 #endif
117 #endif /* _futil_h */