From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: best way to read selected data from a file?
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 17:17:00 -0700
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Kieran Farrell wrote:
> 
> >You can use fread and fwrite to read from and write to random location from
> >a file. But you need to specify the length you want to read if you use
> >fread.
> 
> Hmm that's actually bad advice, his question was for text files. Once
> you use fread or fwrite it automatically makes it a binary file.

Not quite true; you can use fread and fwrite on text files.  You just
have to avoid writing anything that isn't text, or things will break. 
CR/LF translation could also bite if you are writing in the middle of a
file.

In short, it is possible, but probably best avoided.
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Nate Eldredge
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