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From: Peter Berdeklis <peter AT atmosp DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>
Subject: Re: Can not reset an open ifstream file. 
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Once the eof() bit is set in an fstream any further attempts to manipulate
the stream will fail, just like it will any time fstream::fail() != 0. 
You must call fstream::clear() to reset the stream before you can
reposition or read from the file again.

P.S. Why would you post this to comp.lang.c?  Why comp.os.msdos.djgpp for 
that matter?

Pete

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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto