From: Ian@kiwiplan.co.nz (Ian Collins) Subject: Reading a ^Z 4 Sep 1997 17:06:47 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <07551A47EAD6D01186430060B025C6F40A6CA8.cygnus.gnu-win32@ntserver.kiwiplan2.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Original-To: "'Gnu win32 mailer'" X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Please help someone! I am sure this has come up before (probably before I joined). I am reading a binary file. The file is fopened with O_RDONLY. When doing the read, I am using, n = fread((void *) buffer, (size_t) sizeof(char), (size_t) numrecs*reclen, ifd); where numrecs and reclen are the number of records in the file each of length reclen. If there is a control-Z (^Z) in the file, the fread will read up to the ^Z and the rest of the buffer is filled with NULLS. Now I know, in the distant past, DOS files were terminated by a ^Z, but surely there is a workaround to this. I am using b18 with Sergeys latest cygwin.dll. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".