Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpcc05!hpyhde4!hpycla!hpcuhc!pollux!ryoung From: ryoung@pollux.svale.hp.com (Roderick Young) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Microsoft C: Reading binary files. Message-ID: <4880001@pollux.svale.hp.com> Date: 26 Jun 91 02:16:13 GMT References: <1991Jun20.163342.743@ciit85.ciit.nrc.ca> Organization: Hewlett Packard CPCD, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 3 He's probably checked, but is he sure that he opened the file in BINARY mode? A stream opened in character mode will falsely detect EOF in the manner described.