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From: davis AT space DOT mit DOT edu (John E. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Strange bug using 'fwrite'
Date: 11 Dec 1995 09:08:25 GMT
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On 11 Dec 1995 04:20:54 GMT, Chris Butler <cbutler AT bnr DOT ca>
wrote:
 :    I was coding away this weekend when the following bug
 : stopped me dead.
[...]
 :    f2 = fopen("out.2", "w");
 
The problem is here.  You need to open the file in binary mode ("wb").

[...]
 :    Also, I messed around with the initialization of the 'extra_bytes'
 : in other tests - the '0d' always seems to follow the '09'.

Since you opened it in text mode, whenever you write a line feed (0xa), it
gets mapped into CRLF (0xd 0xa).

--John