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From: shaunc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Shaun Case)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: writing a file byte by byte
Message-ID: <2011@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 21:08:37 GMT
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In article <9527@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600bori@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Boris Burtin) writes:
>I'm using Turbo C 2.0 and DOS 3.3, and I'm attempting to write 8166 bytes
>to a file (for those who know what I'm talking about, this is a MIDI sysex
>file).  By the MIDIEX standard, this file should be 8166 bytes long, but
>when I write it, it turns out to be some 8300 or so bytes long.  Does anyone
>know how to solve this problem?  Thanks...
>

It's hard to tell without having some code to look at, but I suggest two things:

1)  make sure you have the file open in binary mode:
	fp = fopen(filename, "wb")
2)  use fwrite() to write out the binary contents of a structure containing 
    all the midi info.


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