From:	Jack Klein <jackklein AT spamcop DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: read() also broken
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:53:25 -0500 (CDT), Jeff Bastian
<bastian AT hc DOT ti DOT com> wrote in comp.os.msdos.djgpp:

> 
> I just modified my code to use read() instead of fread() as a work-around,
> but read() demonstrates the same problem of skipping over the 0x0d
> character.

Change your program back to using fread(), which is standard,
portable, and guaranteed to be available on every C and C++ compiler
in the known and unknown world.

Then open files for binary input/output in binary mode, that is "rb"
instead of "r" and "wb" instead of "w", for the mode argument to
fopen().

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