Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:04:18 +0100 (MET)
From: Gisle Vanem <giva AT bgnett DOT no>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Can't Even Read File Correctly
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Robert Neinast wrote:

> 	while ((c=getchar())!=EOF)
> 	{
> 		putc(c, fp);
> 	}

> $ nnn < nnn.exe
> $ ls -l
> -rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root          296 Nov  8 12:40 nnn.c
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 dosuser  root       111608 Nov  8 12:54 nnn.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 dosuser  root          432 Nov  8 12:54 xx.aa
> 
> So, why is it truncated so???

Probably because there is a ^Z (ASCII 26) in the input stream.
AFAICR, stdin must be set to binary mode to prevent truncating.

Gisle V.