Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:07:15 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: James Addison <addi AT rogers DOT wave DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: FILE I/O - Problems.
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, James Addison wrote:

> I am trying to open an existing binary file for read/write, so I open it
> like:
> 
>    fstream f(filename, ios::in | ios::out | ios::binary | ios::ate);
> 
> and no matter what, it always truncates - how to stop this?  I need to use
> what is in the $%^ing file....  :)
> 
> thanks in advance... please reply to me directly at:
> 
> addi AT rogers DOT wave DOT ca  using DJGPP
> 
 
I met similar problem with versions 2.7.2.X. That is fixed 
in libstdc++ 2.8.X. You could try to upgrade to gcc-2.8.0 but I recommend 
to wait a bit before gcc-2.8.1 with corresponding libraries will be    
be released (I working with DJGPP port of gcc-2.8.1 already for more 
than a month). 

Andris