From:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	fread, fseek and ftell vs. _read and _lseek
18 Jun 1998 19:42:52 -0700 :
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Based on the documentation from M$ and the sample program I've attached; it is my opinion that fread and fseek should not be used for "text mode" files.  Instead, use _read and _lseek.

With fread when a ^Z is encountered the file pointer is left indeterminate and so is the data it was reading when the EOF error occured.

With _read, the file pointer will be left intact and the data is returned including the ^Z.  You can then use _lseek to seek to the character past the EOF ^Z marker, ( e.g.: _lseek( fh, 1L, SEEK_CUR ); ) and then continue reading.

You will find attached testseek.c and testseek.dat which demonstrate this.
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