From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Can't Even Read File Correctly
Date:	8 Nov 2001 18:17:03 GMT
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Robert Neinast <neinast AT worldnet DOT att DOT net> wrote:

> 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????

In DOS, text files have a different line end ("\r\n" instead of a
simple "\n", in C terms), and Ctrl-Z is interpreted as an end-of-file
marker.  Stdin is opened in *text* mode, by default.

To get around this, you have to set the file handling mode of stdin to
binary:

	setmode(fileno(stdin), O_BINARY);

See the docs on these functions for details.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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