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@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Also here are some code fences, because we'll need those too:
 
 ## Input/output
 
-open the file for reading and save the file handle to `file`
+open the file for reading and save the file handle to `handle`
 
 save the file fize. we'll use this to check for end of file.