From: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problem reading DOS binary files
Date: 6 Jan 2000 00:13:20 GMT
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Greg Wellenius (gwelleni AT hsph DOT harvard DOT edu) wrote:
: I'm having problems reading binary files using fstream's 'read' function.
: 
: In the following loop, I read two bytes, skip ahead 6 bytes, and so on until
: I reach an EOF. The loop exits long before the true end of file is reached.
: 
: -------------------------
: short tmpdata;
: 
: // Open file read only
: fstream dataFile.open( fileName, ios::in );

I'm not a C++ programmer but shouldn't you open a binary file in
binary mode?


Right,

							MartinS