Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:54:50 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Peter Russell <petrer AT melbpc DOT org DOT au>
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On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Peter Russell wrote:

> I'd like some info on what I am doing wrong here. This block of code
> works perfectly in Borland C 3.1 and in MS QC ver 6 but gives an
> erroneous result in DJGPP. It reads a binary file into an array of
> structures and displays to screen.

Was the file written by a DJGPP program that declared the BOOK structure 
in the same manner?

If not, then what you see is a result of padding struct members which is
done differently by different compilers.  See section 22.10 of the DJGPP 
FAQ list for more details.