From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: File reading
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 19:14:12 +0000
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Henri Ossi writes:
>How can I
>
>1)read 8bits from a file

Call fgetc().

>2)write 8bits to a file

Call fputc().

>Char is 16bit long, right?

What gave you this idea? Using djgpp, as with most 32 bit compilers, a
char is 8 bits, a short is 16 bits, and an int or long is 32 bits.
Although it is perfectly legal according to the ANSI standard, compilers
with anything other than an 8 bit character type are very unusual...


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