stdio

Folks,

  Over the years, we've complained about the stdio hackery in MH.
  Although I have not personally investigated the issue, I'd like to
  ask any of you with a little time to investigate the following
  issues:

        - is the MH stdio trickery *really* faster than using stock
          modern stdio packages?

        - if it is, why bother with stdio at all?  Why not come up
          with MH's own I/O package that will circumvent stdio
          incompatibilities and clean up the code.

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