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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:41:02 -0200
To: "Thomas Habets" <thomas AT habets DOT pp DOT se DOT nojunk>
From: Eyal Ben-David <eyalb AT aks DOT com>
Subject: Re: fstream doesn't work?
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com


>I've tried to read from a file like this:
>File.read(buffer,8);
>And it doesn't work, Why? How can I change this so it works?
>I got DJGPP 2.01 gcc 2.7.2.1.
>

I assume that File is an ofstream object. If so, then I think it is a 
mis-feature (bug ?) in DJGPP (or maybe gcc).

I opened the file in binary mode like this:

   ifstream File("file.ext", ios::binary);

and the file doesn't read anything. The correction is:

   ifstream File("file.ext", ios::binary | ios::in);

I read the header 'fstream.h' and it seems that whenever an ifstream
is opened as in the first statement  ios::in is ORed with the mode.
This should correct the problem but somehow the ifstream does not read!
when the file is opened without specifying mode (i.e. text-mode)
there's no problem.

   ifstream File("file.ext"); 


Eyal.