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From: pinter@sol.bucknell.edu (pinter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: using files in C on the IBM PC
Message-ID: <110@sol.bucknell.edu>
Date: 2 May 89 23:56:09 GMT
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Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.
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I'm having a problem using files in C on the PC, which I never encountered
on the UNIX machines I used in the past.  I have tried two versions of C, both
Turbo and MSC.  Turbo was completely wierd, because whenever I wrote a
character of value 10 (LF) to a file, it would write both a 10 and a 13.
Also, when reading from a file, it would skip over any characters of
value 13.  MSC did not have these problems, but both compilers exhibited
the problem of being completely unable to read past a character of value 26
in a file.  A realize that that is a ctrl-Z or EOF, but it seems there must
be some way to have files which include this character.  Turbo Pascal has no
trouble with it, and I wouldn't want to believe that C is inferior to Pascal
in such a dramatic way.
     Please write me if you have a solution.  Also, please do not use the
news bulletin board since I don't read it very often.  Thanx.

                                  -- Marco Pinter
                                     pinter@sol.bucknell.edu