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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:38:08 +1000
From: Peter Russell <petrer AT melbpc DOT org DOT au>
Organization: Melbourne PC User Group
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: fread
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Hi all

I'd like some info on what I am doing wrong here. This block of code
works perfectly in Borland C 3.1 and in MS QC ver 6 but gives an
erroneous result in DJGPP. It reads a binary file into an array of
structures and displays to screen. Here is the code.

Thanks  Pete

int read_file(void);

typedef struct
        {
        char title[30];
        char author[30];
        int year;
        } BOOK;

main()
{
   clrscr();
 if(read_file());
//   else
//   {
//     get_data();
//      write_file();
//   }
}
int read_file(void)
{
   int i = 0;
  FILE *infile;
   BOOK book[5];

 if ((infile = fopen("A:\\book.bin", "rb")) == NULL)
   {
    printf("\n\nCould not open file");
      printf("\n\nPlease check disk with file 'book.bin' is in the A:
drive");
      printf("\n\nExiting the program");
      return 0;
   }
   else
   {
      for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
      {
         fread(&book[i], sizeof(book[i]), 1, infile);
        printf("%s %s %d\n", book[i].title, book[i].author,
book[i].year);
      }
   }
}