Re: [Mingw-users] Mingw fwrite size problem

[Mikael A. <mik...@te...>]

Ooops, sorry, I mean "wb" for binary mode of course...

Mikael

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Stefan Viljoen" <ry...@in...>
To: <min...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:25 AM
Subject: [Mingw-users] Mingw fwrite size problem


> Mikael Aronsson wrote:
>
> Message: 2
> From: "Mikael Aronsson" <mik...@te...>
> To: <min...@li...>
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Fwrite/fread under Windows not able to save
same
> sizes as in Linux?
>
> Windows has "text" mode that replaces crlf and so on and this may be on=
 b=3D
> y
> default, this also
> handles EOF characters as end of file, so if you have a file in text mo=
de
> and write and end of
> file, that would be handled as an end of file.
>
> Use fopen( ...., "wt"); instead of fopen( ..., "w"); and so on.
>
> Hi Mikael
>
> Hmm - not sure I understand you correctly. If I save the data buffer us=
ing
> "wt" and the problem goes away, i. e. that the resultant file is now th=
e
full
> 6 meg and not 0 anymore, won;t using text saving mode corrupt the data?=
 I.
e.
> either because CR/LF is not included, the data will be invalid, or when=
 I
try
> to fread with "wt" it stops at wat LOOKS to it like an eof but is, in
fact,
> data I want loaded?
>
> Or am I missing the point here?
>
> Sorry, I am a relative newbie to C and MingW and programming in general=
.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to reply!
>
> Regards,
>
> --=20
> Stefan Viljoen
> Polar Design Solutions
> Software Support Technician
>
>
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