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Thanx everyone for all your feedback. Still no-go though.

I even tried changing the file path to a: and managed to write text data to a floppy. Still got the same prob with reading from it!!!

Hi 7stud.

Thanks for your reply. I tried it but got the same old result---

"File does not already exist."

Getting a bit fed up, failing at the first hurdle!!

Salem,

if you read my reply to Ammar, you know I'm new to this.

What's "Threads merged" mean?

I tried adding the test.dat file to the project thinking that it would then be in the right...

Thanks ammar.

I tried that but got 2 probs.

1. The compiler didn't recognise <stdlib>
2. When I deleted <stdlib> the compiler didn't recognise
ios::nocreate. It viewed it as an...

Thanks very much. I'll try that.

I apologise for blathering on but I am really stuck on this problem.

I have an external file called "test.dat" from a write program. This bit actually works and the following code is supposed to...

Hello all,

I am a complete newbie trying to learn this stuff. I actually have two questions;

1) I have been looking through a few of the recent threads and I have noticed some differences to my...