Re: [Mingw-users] Reading binary binary files originated from Linux in XP

[Tor L. <tm...@ik...>]

> I have a question about reading binary files(1.4gb in size) through fopen()
> and fread().  The binary files I have originated from a Linux environment
> and I can't read them as is.

Why not? What kind of errors do you get? You do open the files in
binary mode (fopen(filename, "rb")) I hope? In what way did you copy
the files to your Windows machine? Is it possible they got corrupted
already in the copying process?

 > I thought something was wrong w/ my fread or
> the file size.  However, when I run the head command from Msys to get all
> the lines out to a temp file or use cat, then I can read the file fine.

You say the files are binary, still you talk about "lines" which of
course is a concept relevant to text files only. Also the "head"
command is meaningful for text files only. Please explain more what
kind of data the files contain.

--tml