Like princ and print, there are two forms of the write function. The write function operates identically to the print function, except that its first argument declares the file handle to which it will write its output. The result of a write function is machine readable, whereas the result of a writec function is intended to be human readable. Notice that neither writec nor write will automatically place a carriage return at the end of a line. The programmer must explicitly print a "\n" or make a call to terpri.