From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: C-style FILE IO problems..
Date:	Sat, 21 Dec 1996 16:00:25 -0800
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Roland Nilsson wrote:

> Yes, I'm parsing binary files. I believe C FILE i/o is always in raw
> mode. The only fopen() flags available are those relating to i/o
> direction and overwrite, according to my djgpp function list.
> I usually fopen() with "r".

No.  Specifying a mode parameter of "r" means read in text mode.
End-of-line character sequences will be transformed into newlines on read,
and vice versa when writing.

Open it with a mode parameter of "rb" for read in _binary_ mode.

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