From: Bjorn De Meyer <bgdmeyer AT eduserv2 DOT rug DOT ac DOT be>
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Subject: Re: why is output different each time (2nd try)
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 17:19:28 +0100
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, bowman wrote:

> 
> 
> Joe Ury wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry my first message had a error in the code.
> > Why do I get differing output each time.  Its reading a marked up text file
> > and the first time it works ok then the next time what looks like memory
> > dump is added at the beginning of each line then the next time more of the
> > same and after a while its ok again - should I be flushing memory
> > somewhere?
> 
> I haven't had time to look at the code deeply, but I do not see the
> files being closed anyplace. I would try that first, rather than
> depending on exit code to clean up after you.
> 
> 

Also, you're opening your files in text mode rather than in binary mode,
and get you use fgetc. fuse fopen("foo.bar","rb") to open for reading in
binary mode.


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