Author and all-around good cowpoke
Posts: 13078
posted 22 years ago
The File class provides a platform independent way to manipulate information about files and directories, create and delete files and directories, etc..
FileDescriptor is not a general class - like you quoted from the API, it encapsulates some very system specific details - essentially a file handle. There is very little reason for most programmers to ever use a FileDescriptor.
Bill