From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Collins <Ian@kiwiplan.co.nz>
To: "'Gnu win32 mailer'" <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Subject: Reading a ^Z
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 22:32:00 -0000
Message-id: <07551A47EAD6D01186430060B025C6F40A6CA8@ntserver.kiwiplan2.co.nz>
X-SW-Source: 1997-09/msg00045.html

Please help someone!

I am sure this has come up before (probably before I joined).
I am reading a binary file. The file is fopened with O_RDONLY.
When doing the read, I am using,

n = fread((void *) buffer, (size_t) sizeof(char), (size_t)
numrecs*reclen, ifd);

where numrecs and reclen are the number of records in the file each of
length reclen.

If there is a control-Z (^Z) in the file, the fread will read up to the
^Z and the rest of the buffer is filled with NULLS.
Now I know, in the distant past, DOS files were terminated by a ^Z, but
surely there is a workaround to this.
I am using b18 with Sergeys latest cygwin.dll.
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