Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 10:31:44 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Aaron Chernosky wrote:

> Should I just use fread like so: 
>   
>   fread(ch,1,1,fin); // if ch is a single char var?

It doesn't matter, you still need to open the stream in binary mode.

For reading a single character, getc is faster, because it's an inline 
function that expands to a few simple operations.  In contrast, fread 
will incur an overhead of a function call.