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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:40:17 +0200
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: MSDOS/stat() reporting wrong size
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Matthew Mucklo wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I was wondering if anyone knew why MSDOS and stat() therefore return the
>wrong file size.  fread() appears to finish ahead of the end of the file as
>according to stat().  It's reporting less characters read than are actually
>in the file (yes, the buffer's big enough).
>
>  
>
I think the probeem is that you want to read an MSDOS TEXT file 
containing CR\LF pairs which are converted upon reading to a single LF. 
Modify this line

>    fd = fopen(argv[1], "r");
>
Open the file in binary mode like    

	fd = fopen(argv[1], "rb");