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From: Devin_E_Ben-Hur@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo C bug (?)
Message-ID: <3359@cup.portal.com>
Date: 20 Feb 88 23:46:25 GMT
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> In version 1.0 I noticed what seemed to be a bug in the read() function.
> The docs claim (and the standard dictates) that this function returns the
> actual byte count read in from the file.
> Under 1.0 it seemed that this number had no bearing on the actual byte
> count.
> It would read in all 16, but return some number close to, but not equal to,
> 16.
>     -Jim Seymour              ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!qintar

You probably have your file open in text mode, in which case returns and
cntrl-Z bytes are ignored in the byte count.  Try opening your file
in binary mode.