Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!umriscc!mcs213f.cs.umr.edu!mcastle From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Fastest dump to disk? Message-ID: <2184@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> Date: 17 Feb 91 02:40:53 GMT References: <91043.105618JJLUCSY@MTUS5.BITNET> Sender: news@umriscc.isc.umr.edu Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla Lines: 19 In article <91043.105618JJLUCSY@MTUS5.BITNET> JJLUCSY@MTUS5.BITNET writes: >Could someone please tell me what is the fastest way to dump a chunk of memory >to disk using either Turbo C v.2 or Turbo C++. I'm not to particular on the >method, but it should be real quick. Thanks in advance. > >Joel Lucsy (JJLUCSY@MTUS5.BITNET or JJLUCSY@MTUS5.CTS.MTU.EDU) Try fwrite. The prototype is: size_t fwrite(const void *ptr, size_t size, size_t n, FILE *stream); It starts at *ptr and writes n records of size size to file pointed to by steam. -- Mike Castle (Nexus) S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU (preferred) | RN ate my mcastle@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (unix mail-YEACH!)| .newsrc! Life is like a clock: You can work constantly, and be right | I am not all the time, or not work at all, and be right twice a day. | happy :-<