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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: A Question about nesting structures
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Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 12:32:03 EST
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Mr. Crane, C is not COBOL, and structs are not "group items".
You know that this will not work:

	struct x { char a; int b; } y;
	read (0, &y, 3);

What you are supposed to do is read each item individually.
I don't think that it should make any difference that the items within
the group all turn out to be chars in the end.

I think you should use scanf instead of trying to read everything at once.

Mark Brader