FILE I/O: fread() fails for GCC(Cygnus & DJ's) and TC++

John D. Robertson john@rrci.com
Sat Apr 26 10:18:00 GMT 1997


I ran into the same problem myself using MSVC++ - spent half a day 
chasing it down.  The fix for me was to open the file in "binary" mode 
(whatever the hell that means!)

FILE *fh= fopen("yourfile", "rb");

Notice the mode is "rb", for read binary.

JDR

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