From: john@rrci.com ("John D. Robertson") Subject: Re: FILE I/O: fread() fails for GCC(Cygnus & DJ's) and TC++ 26 Apr 1997 12:22:48 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: john@localhost Original-To: Rich Kucera Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <0009386C.1950@ccmail.irs.gov> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com I ran into the same problem myself using MSVC++ - spent half a day chasing it down. The fix for me was to open the file in "binary" mode (whatever the hell that means!) FILE *fh= fopen("yourfile", "rb"); Notice the mode is "rb", for read binary. JDR |======================================================| | John D. Robertson, ADAMS Modeler / Software Engineer | | Robertson & Robertson Consultants, Inc. | | 3637 West Georgia Rd. | | Pelzer, SC 29669 | | | | Phone: (864) 243-2436 | | Fax: (864) 243-3023 | | Email: john@rrci.com | |======================================================| - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".