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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What is wrong?
Message-ID: <8828@alice.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 21:35:38 GMT
References: <2051@ndsuvax.UUCP>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <2051@ndsuvax.UUCP>, numork@ndsuvax.UUCP (James Mork) writes:
>   I am using TC 1.5 everything was going OK... Now... when I run
>   a simple program like this, the file gets truncated after 25 or
>   26 bytes...

Some MS-DOS C compilers treat a ^Z character as end of file.

^Z is 0x1A or 032 (octal) or 26 (decimal).  Your program
[not shown here] is putting consecutive characters into the
file, starting from 0.  Looks suspicious.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com