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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: File reading problem with -mno-cygwin
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 12:40:46 -0700
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Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> jdhagen AT chorus DOT net wrote:
>
>> As Corinna mentioned, opening the file in binary mode would eliminate 
>> the problem.
>>
>> The data file "sf" actually contains a byte 0x1A that is interpreted 
>> in text mode on DOS / Windows
>> systems as end-of-file.
>>
>> In binary mode, this won't be interpreted as end-of-file.
>
> Thanks. Actually I figured this out about 1 - 2 hours after I posted. 
> I still have some other problems in my process but this one that I 
> isolated has been resolved.

One question remains however and that is why would it work in Cygwin but 
not in -mno-cygwin? My theory is that opening a file with "r" under 
Cygwin is equivalent to "rb".




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