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Comment: Changed the part about an update stream to something more appropriate

The ungetc() function pushes a character onto an input stream. This pushed character can then be read by subsequent calls to functions that read from that stream. However, the ungetc() function has serious limitations. A call to a file positioning function, such as fseek(), will discard any character pushed back by ungetc(). Also, the C standard only guarantees that the pushing back of one character will succeed. Therefore, subsequent calls to ungetc() must be separated by a call to a read function or a file positioning function (which will discard any data pushed by ungetc()). If more than one character needs to be pushed by ungetc(), then an update stream fgetpos() and fsetpos() should be used before and after reading the data instead of calling pushing it back with ungetc().

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