X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: lbrtchx AT hotmail DOT com (CPPNewbie) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: no matching function for call Organization: Acecape, Inc. Message-ID: <1008670925.974488@news> Cache-Post-Path: news!unknown AT p66-243 DOT acedsl DOT com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Date: 18 Dec 2001 14:18:07 GMT Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: 622839d4.news.newshosting.com X-Trace: DXC=knRbe=f_=DmFTPS^k1LciF6BbIV4YYbLnHEXCOOR AT oENV?o;G=DOi\4CTT1l\<3f??2mKW>l_Ic X-Complaints-To: abuse AT newshosting DOT com To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com OK, I see, but doesn't unsigned char *ucAr = new unsigned char[ASCIIVOL]; ifBinStrm.read((char *) ucAr, ASCIIVOL); mean that I am casting to (char *) instead to (unsigned char *)? I need to grab the bytes as raw sequeces of bits, that is why I need for them to be interpreted by the compiler as -unsigned-. I need for each "byte" to be able to hodl values from 0 to 255. Is there something I havent quite understood here? Thanks