2013/10/16 Edscott Wilson <[email protected]>
>
> I appreciate all the responses. This is the result.
>
> 1. The option O_BINARY is not available in fcntl.h for gcc, So
> open("test.dbh", O_RDWR|O_BINARY) does not work.
>
See MSDN for the flags you are looking for:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z0kc8e3z.aspx
Ruben
>
> 2. Neither will the unix2dos program work since the file to open is a
> binary file which must be read byte by byte.
>
> 3. fopen("test.dbh", "rb") seems to have nailed it. Since I require use of
> lseek() later on, I need a file descriptor. So the solution (hack?) that
> works is the following:
> FILE *f = fopen("test.dbh", "rb");
> int fd = fileno(f);
>
> With that, the read(fd, data, 256) will read the correct amount of bytes.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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