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From: mgphl@msa3b.UUCP (Michael Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Turbo C, fopen(), fprint() and ^Z - The solution.
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Date: 28 Sep 90 22:19:40 GMT
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brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Graham Brand) writes:

>...
>any line of text that was added to the end of the file. The only file
>operations that were done in the program were fopen() and fprintf()? 
>Where was the ^Z coming from and which of the changes, fseek(.,-1L,.) or
>fopen(.,"b"), cured it?

>Thanks for all your help,
>-Graham
 
Graham, Absolutely, positively, it was the fopen(.,"b") that cured your ^Z
problem.  Since ^Z is the "end-of-file" marker for _TEXT_ files, anytime a
file is opened as _text_ ("t", the usual default), and the file is updated
in some way, it should have a ^Z appended to the end.   Now I think that
the ^Z is basically useless, but it is the way DOS defines things so I live
with it.

Michael
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