From:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: ftell fseek problem
11 Sep 1998 02:57:44 -0700 :
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To:	miphon AT geocities DOT com
Cc:	gw32 <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Get rid of the \r in the line endings and open the file in binary
processing mode.  ftell will work the same as on unix this way.



---Miphon <miphon AT geocities DOT com> wrote:
>
> In using a mkindx kinda file it doesn't seem to grab the correct start
> spots so the out putfrom the text file is started in an incorrect spot
> (am I making any sense yet?).
> I'm not an acual programmer just someone who occasionally can do some
> debugging and a little compiling here and there and this problem is
> above me.  The mkindx file I am refering to comes with the PENNmush
mush
> package available at http://www.pennmush.org/.
> One of the programmers sent this to me if it helps.  I guess what I'm
> asking is there a way to get ftell (and fseek) to work correctly?
> 
> 
> 
> could this problem be because in Win32, we get the
> mkindx bigpos using ftell, but we store the entry's length
> (bigpos - pos)? According to my unix man page for ftell, on
> some non-Unix systems, the ftell return value can't really be
> used arithmetically like that because it's not measured in 
> bytes but in something else meaningful only to fseek.
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