From: collonelloNO_SPAM AT hotmail DOT com (Collonello)
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Subject: Re: djgpp: c++ and binary files
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 16:14:23 GMT
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On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 03:01:06 -0500, Martin Ambuhl
<mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:

>Collonello wrote:
>> 
>> Okay, I've a problem.
>> Somebody tell me what's wrong in this program:
>
>>   ofstream fout("foo.dat", ios::binary);
>    ofstream fout("foo.dat", ios::out | ios::binary);
>
>
>>   ifstream fin("foo.dat", ios::binary);
>    ifstream fin("foo.dat", ios::in | ios::binary);
>I cannot tell you for sure (so this may be wrong), but it seems that if
>you use the mode argument at all, you must specify it completely.

Yup. It worked. Thanks. To you and the other Martin. :) 
Funny but I actually took that part of the source code from Jesse
Liberty's book, Teach yourself C++ programming in 21 days. 

-Tom