1.express in words;
He said that he wanted to marry her
2.let something be known;
Tell them that you will be late
3.narrate or give a detailed account of;
Tell what happened
4.give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority;
I said to him to go home
5.discern or comprehend;
He could tell that she was unhappy
6.inform positively and with certainty and confidence;
I tell you that man is a crook!
7.give evidence;
he was telling on all his former colleague
8.mark as different;
We distinguish several kinds of maple
函数函数名 tell 功 能 取文件指针的当前位置 用 法 long tell(int handle); 程序例 #include #include #include #include int main(void) { int handle; char msg[] = "Hello world"; if ((handle = open("TEST.$$$", O_CREAT | O_TEXT | O_APPEND)) == -1) { perror("Error:"); return 1; } write(handle, msg, strlen(msg)); printf("The file pointer is at byte %ld\n", tell(handl