Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 17:49:21 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Ethan Rohrer <rer AT wlv DOT iipo DOT gtegsc DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: help: read()ing from files containing 0x1A
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On Fri, 2 May 1997, Ethan Rohrer wrote:

> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to port some code from my UNIX account to my DOS machine.
> My program reads a binary file using a open()/read()/close() sequence.
> It worked like a champ in my UNIX account.
> 
> Now, under DJGPP, I find that read() stops reading when it encounters
> the EOF character (0x1A), which just happens to occur every here and
> there in my binary files...

In your open() call, add O_BINARY to the flags. Note that this is
nonportable to UNIX, so you do something like:

#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

#ifdef MSDOS
 i = open ("myfile", O_RDWR | O_BINARY);
#else
 i = open ("myfile", O_RDWR);
#endif


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