Re: EOF?

2000-09-18 Thread Kevin Miller
On 18/9/00 4:45 pm, James Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm reading a binary file a character at a time and looking for the end-of-file marker so I know when to stop reading but the read terminates before the entire file is read. There seems to be an eof marker in the file that is not at

Re: EOF?

2000-09-18 Thread James Parker
On 18/9/00 4:45 pm, James Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm reading a binary file a character at a time and looking for the end-of-file marker so I know when to stop reading but the read terminates before the entire file is read. There seems to be an eof marker in the file that is not at

Re: EOF?

2000-09-18 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, James Parker wrote: On 18/9/00 4:45 pm, James Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm reading a binary file a character at a time and looking for the end-of-file marker so I know when to stop reading but the read terminates before the entire file is read. There seems

Re: EOF?

2000-09-18 Thread LiangTyan Fui
On 9/19/00 2:51 AM, Scott Raney wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, James Parker wrote: On 18/9/00 4:45 pm, James Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm reading a binary file a character at a time and looking for the end-of-file marker so I know when to stop reading but the read terminates before

Re: EOF?

2000-09-18 Thread Kevin Miller
On 19/9/00 2:42 am, LiangTyan Fui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this applicable to all MetaCard disk I/O commands on Mac, or just effecting: put url "binfile:thefile.txt" where it really reads the entire file into RAM? Only the URL commands. This is functionally equivalent to "read until

Re: EOF?

2000-09-18 Thread Scott Raney
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, LiangTyan Fui wrote: How large were the files, and on what platform? You should be able to read just about anything on a Win32 or UNIX systems, but reading files larger than a few MB on a Mac is probably not a good idea unless you have a large amount of RAM. Is