File reading problem with -mno-cygwin

Andrew DeFaria Andrew@DeFaria.com
Wed Sep 4 08:27:00 GMT 2002


jdhagen@chorus.net wrote:

> As Corinna mentioned, opening the file in binary mode would eliminate 
> the problem.
>
> The data file "sf" actually contains a byte 0x1A that is interpreted 
> in text mode on DOS / Windows
> systems as end-of-file.
>
> In binary mode, this won't be interpreted as end-of-file.

Thanks. Actually I figured this out about 1 - 2 hours after I posted. I 
still have some other problems in my process but this one that I 
isolated has been resolved.




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