Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!amdahl!tat00 From: tat00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tom Thackrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: more details on microsoft c file io bug Message-ID: <35980@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 17 Jun 88 18:15:40 GMT References: <1327@spdcc.COM> Reply-To: tat00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tom Thackrey) Distribution: na Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 17 In article <1327@spdcc.COM> eli@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Elias) writes: >From: Gary Ross > >I am running version 4.0 of the c compiler and the specific problem is that >the file read operation does not appear to work correctly. More specifically >I have a file of a given size (according to several different utilities that >I have used) and when I try to read it with my c program it craps out half >way through the file and is unable to find the rest of the data. This sounds like the problem of reading a binary file in character mode and encountering an 'end-of-file' character half way through. I've been doing a lot of data prep using MSC 4.0, 5.0 and 5.1 and haven't encountered any file i/o bugs (I use the small and compact models mostly.) -- Tom Thackrey tat00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com <=> amdahl!tat00 [ My opinions are only my own. ]