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From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: i/o file handling - integers
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 18:37:54 -0700
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Rikard Thunberg wrote:

[Rewrapped to ~80 columns; grr.]

> 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
> rather clumsy:

Look up fread and fwrite for this purpose.  They're what you're looking for.

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