X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-ID: <403E69B9.1054A239@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Why can't I use freopen here? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:49:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.76.140.13 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1077832160 12.76.140.13 (Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:49:20 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:49:20 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJGPP 2.03, gcc 3.21. if (!(freopen(NULL, "rb", stdin))) { puts("Can't open stdin in binary mode"); } else if ... fails. The objective is to be able to read past 0x1a EOF markers in the file. Line endings are of no concern. Why does it fail? Observations: "cat testfile" truncates. "cat testfile >junk" does not truncate. "wc testfile" does not truncate. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address!