From: Sigurdur Smarason Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: newbie:problem with fread Date: 3 Oct 1998 15:55:08 GMT Organization: Tufts University Lines: 11 Message-ID: <6v5hcs$s0q$1@news3.tufts.edu> References: <6v4386$c7t$1 AT news3 DOT tufts DOT edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: emerald.tufts.edu X-Trace: news3.tufts.edu 907430108 28698 (None) 130.64.1.16 X-Complaints-To: news AT news DOT tufts DOT edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970705; alpha OSF1 V4.0] To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Now if I call each seperately as in: size=fread(&header.norm_offset,sizeof(header.norm_offset),1,data); size=fread(&header.extra_records,sizeof(header.extra_records),1,data); size=fread(&header.num_records,sizeof(header.num_records),1,data); etc. it works as it should, but this is rather clumsy in my opinion, is there a better way ?