From: "Jonadab the Unsightly One" <jonadab AT zerospam DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [gcc] fstream and non-textual data:  EOF problem.
Date: 15 Sep 1998 21:22:19 GMT
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Jonadab the Unsightly One <jonadab AT zerospam DOT com> wrote in article 

Oh, one more relevant piece of info I left out:

> int main () 
> {
>      ifstream *infile;
> 
>      infile = new ifstream; infile->open("infile2.txt");

Changing this line (above) to
infile = new ifstream; infile->open("infile2.txt", ios::bin);
causes *every* character to be reported as -1,
right from the beginning.  Does that seem bizarre
to anyone else?

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