Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 20:14:54 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: fseek()/ fread() troubles
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This one stumped me for a while too - it fails under Linux.  I caught
the error when I switched to lseek, which gave a suitable error
message.

>     fseek_ret = fseek(fp, SEEK_SET, rand_num * 20);

Should be:

    fseek_ret = fseek(fp, rand_num * 20, SEEK_SET);