From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: help: read()ing from files containing 0x1A
Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 13:33:47 -0700
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Ethan Rohrer wrote:

> I am trying to port some code from my UNIX account to my DOS machine.
> My program reads a binary file using a open()/read()/close() sequence.
> It worked like a champ in my UNIX account.
> 
> Now, under DJGPP, I find that read() stops reading when it encounters
> the EOF character (0x1A), which just happens to occur every here and
> there in my binary files...

Easy.  Open the file in binary mode.

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