Re: [Mingw-users] istream reading stops prematurely

[Brian D. <br...@de...>]

Leroy van Engelen wrote:

>         > dir testfile2
>         ...
>         14-Sep-05  01:58           157,822 testfile2
>         ...

Is this a binary file?  If it contains the ^Z character and you open it
in text mode then IO will stop when it reaches the ^Z which is a
windowsism that signifies end of file.  You need to open it in binary
mode if you don't want this.

Brian