From:	Robert Neinast <neinast AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Can't Even Read File Correctly
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Date:	Thu, 08 Nov 2001 17:56:18 GMT
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This is driving me nuts.  In C, I'm doing simple getchars from
stdin and writing to a file, and it keeps getting truncated.
Anybody have any ideas what the heck I'm doing wrong????
(I have 15 years experience with C programming, so either I
am doing something incredibly stupid, or something weird is
going on.)  This is on Windows 98, djgpp 2.03.

My file (nnn.c) is

===============================
#include <stdio.h>

main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];

{
	int c;

	FILE *fp;

	if ((fp = fopen("xx.aa", "wb"))==NULL)
	{
		fprintf(stderr, "could not open output file\n");
		exit(1);
	}

	while ((c=getchar())!=EOF)
	{
		putc(c, fp);
	}

	fclose(fp);

	exit(0);
}
===============================

$ ls -l
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root          296 Nov  8 12:40 nnn.c
$ gcc -o nnn.exe nnn.c
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root          296 Nov  8 12:40 nnn.c
-rwxr-xr-x   1 dosuser  root       111608 Nov  8 12:54 nnn.exe
$ nnn < nnn.exe
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root          296 Nov  8 12:40 nnn.c
-rwxr-xr-x   1 dosuser  root       111608 Nov  8 12:54 nnn.exe
-rwxr-xr-x   1 dosuser  root          432 Nov  8 12:54 xx.aa

So, why is it truncated so???

Thanks in advance,
Bob
-- 
. . . and shun the Frumious Bandersnatch
Robert A. Neinast
Pickerington, OH

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