From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: C-style FILE IO problems..
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 19:33:10 -0800
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Roland Nilsson wrote:

> I've been using djgpp for a few months, and has experienced some
> problems during heavy usage of C-style FILE io. It seems fread()
> and fwrite() cannot handle reads of any size, they fail in certain
> situations. I have not been able to find any logical pattern, they
> just bomb sometimes. Are there any restrictions on FILE usage which
> could explain this behaviour (maximum transfer sizes, reads at odd
> positions, etc) ???

How large?

The only thing that comes to mind offhand:  Are you trying to read binary
data?  If so, are you sure you've opened the file in binary mode?  (If not,
this would likely explain your problems, depending on your definition of
"they just bomb sometimes.")

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