Message-ID:	<32124686.3395@pobox.oleane.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:35:02 +0200
From:	Francois Charton <deef AT pobox DOT oleane DOT com>
Organization:	CCMSA
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	Joonas W N Reynders <reynders AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Does FREAD have a limitation?
References:	<4urt38$f7h AT oravannahka DOT Helsinki DOT FI>

Joonas W N Reynders wrote:
> 
>         My question is that does fread have a limit in the number of
> bytes it can read on one call? If I try to read more than about 130000
> bytes I get EOF on a file which is 890000 bytes long (read starts from
> the beginning, I've checked it with ftell). The size of read unit is one
> byte.

No. I checked the source for fread (in DJGPP/SRC/LIBC/ANSI/STDIO), which 
does not limit in any way the number of bytes read. Also, I wrote a small 
program which smoothly read 1000000 bytes with one fread().

What did you use to open your file ?
It should be
fopen("myfile.sth","rb");
                   ^^^^^
on my machine, if you say :
fopen("myfile.sth","r");
                  ^^^^^ 
your file is opened as a text file, and fread() does not work as you 
wish... (I think this default attitude can be corrected by fixinf 
something in a .h header).^

Francois,

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