Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 17:47:42 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: i/o file handling - intege
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On Thu, 9 May 1996 j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com wrote:

> >What is the appropriate way to read/write integers from/to a file with the
> same
> >size as it is stored in
> >memory, i.e. a long integer (32bit) would occupy 4 bytes in the file. I have
> >reached a solution but it seems

This thread is going on for so long, that another bit of info, however 
insignificant, won't hurt anybody.  So here goes: did you know there are 
functions specifically designed to read and write 32-bit words?  Well, 
there are, they are called `getw' and `putw'.  Look them up in the libc 
Info reference.  Warning: they are neither ANSI nor POSIX, so don't use 
them in a program that should be portable.