From: horst DOT kraemer AT snafu DOT de (Horst Kraemer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: fstream bug?
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:23:19 GMT
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On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:36:21 +0200, Martin Juul <mj AT mi DOT aau DOT dk> wrote:

>// filsplitter
>A file made in this way get a size bigger than 40bytes if compiled by
>gxx on dos(under win95)
>it looks to mee like a serious bug in the fstream?
>can anyone confirm that it poses a prob. to compile this under win95,
>maybe solve it?

You don't take into account that the number of characters in a text
file on disk is usually not identical to the number of chars "read".

An end of line is represented on disk by a byte sequence 13,10 (CRLF),
while a stream in text mode will convert this sequence into a single
char \n - and vice versa. Obviously among the 43 bytes read and
written were 3 CRLF sequences which were represented as a single \n in
your buffer.

Regards
Horst