Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 14:18:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Ed Phillips <flaregun AT udel DOT edu>
To: Brian Smith <brian AT godzilla DOT MicroUnity DOT com>
Cc: djgpp mailing list <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject: Re: fwrite and dos files

On Fri, 3 Feb 1995, Brian Smith wrote:

> 
> 
>    I have installed djgpp with gcc version 2.6.0. I am trying to use
> fwrite to write a static character array to a dos file. When I look 
> at the output file with debug, I find that all of my 0xa (LF) have
> been replaced by 0x0d 0x0a (CR/LF).
> 
>    I am used to a unix environment where fwrite writes just the bytes
> I tell it to 8-) Am I missing something silly? Can someone explain 
> this to me?
> 
>    My test case looks is:
> 
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> FILE *ofile;
> 
> static char buff[] = {0x20,0x20,0x20,0xa,0x20,0xa,0xa};
> 
> main() {
> 
>    ofile = fopen("splat.out","w");

     ofile = fopen("splat.out", "wb");

	Your need "wb" for BINARY access to files (an MSDOS thang! 
yuck!).  Otherwise 0xa will be converted to 0xa 0xd (or somesuch).

>    fwrite(buff, sizeof(buff), 1, ofile);
> }
> 
> 		- Brian -
> 

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