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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: Help reading a DOS file
- Message-ID: <wiegand.711831277@lido16>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <DAO.92Jul22104319@d62iggy.mitre.org>
- Distribution: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:54:37 GMT
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- dao@d62iggy.mitre.org (David A. Ondzes) writes:
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- >I need some help. One of my games writes it data to a file, and I would
- >like to read this file. When I type the file to the screen it shows up
- >as a bunch of happy faces etc ... so I am assuming it is a binary file.
- >Is this correct assumption ? I can make out some text in the file. I have
- >looked at the file with various hex edit programs to find out where the data
- >I want is.
- >
- > How do I read in the data ? I tried using fscanf(fd,"%x",&int). I would
- >like to be able to read in 2 hex digits at a time, because this is how I
- >saw the file with the hex editors mentioned above.
-
- > Any help involing reading files that are not ascii text would also
- >be appreciated.
-
-
- >Please send replys to
- >picasso@bass.bu.edu
-
-
- >Thank you
- >David Ondzes
-
- First, make sure you open the file with a file type of "binary" not "text".
- Second, try using "fgetc" to read the file a byte at a time.
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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