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From: jeroen@cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Fokker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: REPOST: binary write question
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Date: 12 Feb 91 08:44:37 GMT
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In <ERICCO.91Feb11082757@soc1.ssl.berkeley.edu> ericco@ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric C. Olson) writes:

> My question is basic: how do I write character code 10
> using write, as in:
>
>	{
>	char c = 10;
>	int fd = open("test.dat", O_BINARY|O_WRONLY)
>	write(fd, &c, sizeof(c));
>	close (fd)
>	}
>
>When I do this, i get carriage return AND linefeed in the file
>"test.dat".  I'm using Laser C.

You can use file-I/O on another level: Atari GEMDOS calls.
It would look like this:

	int f;
	if (newfile)
              f = Fcreate( "test.dat", 0 );
        else  f = Fopen( "test.dat", 2 /* for read/write */ );
	Fwrite( f, (long)(sizeof(c)), &c );
        Fclose(f);


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