From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Reading binary files
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:11:35 -0700
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Chris wrote:

> What I am doing is reading in numbers as shorts and need a function
> that can do that with a binary file and stop at the EOF.  How is this
> best accomplished.

I'm surprised this question is asked so often, since every C book I've
seen goes over this point in detail.

If you want to open a file in binary, then you need to open it as such.
You do this by using mode "rb" in the call to fopen:

    file = fopen(filename, "rb");

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