From: P DOT J DOT Kersten AT dia DOT eur DOT nl (P.J. Kersten)
Subject: Re: fread fails when fopen is used without "rb"
13 Mar 1998 23:32:31 -0800
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Kevin Cutts wrote:
> 
> I made a mistake and opened a binary file using fopen("file","r"). Note that
> I forgot to open it with "rb". When I read the file, I could only read part
> of the file: the read only suceeded for 2081 bytes of the 345K! Believing
> that I had made a coding mistake, I tried 'wc'. It agreed with my code: they
> both 'think' the file has 2081 bytes. However emacs and ls both realize the
> file is much larger. (When I used a truly ascii file, the size worked
> correctly. The code hack does work correctly under the Metrowerks compiler.)
> 
> Does this seem like the correct behaviour? I can't trust wc because it
> obviously opens as text. I looked in the faq without seeing anything that
> suggests this operation. In this case the failure was the best thing that
> could have happened because I discovered that the legacy unix code needs
> some work around the binary/text problems.
> 
[snip]

Just a guess: byte 2082 is ^D?

HTH,
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