From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: read  reads too less under DOS but enough under linux
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 10:54:01 -0700
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Sven G. wrote:
> 
> At first I new to C. But I hope its not my fault.
> I wrote a simple program unter gcc/linux which runs ok. Then I compiled it with
> DJGPP V2 under MS-DOS but the prg made nonsense.
> As I debugged it, I saw that read (off a file) returned 0x3D instead of 0x40.
> It was in the middle of the file, and how I said it worked under linux.
> Maybe I did not considerated something I did not know.

DOS text files use a CR/LF combination to designate the end of a line,
while Unix text files use only a CR.  Thus, DOS text files are larger
than the corresponding Unix file.  For this reason, you should NEVER
open a text file in binary mode.

There are utilities in the DJGPP distribution called 'dtou' and 'utod'
that can convert between DOS and Unix style text files.

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