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That helps! Thanks again everyone. :)

-JMB

I guess what I'm asking is... Fordy said that in the case of declaring an automatic c-string variable, the bytes are copied to the stack. This makes sense, of course. But what I'm wondering -- is the...

Interesting. I wonder why they do it that way?

I come from a background in Pascal, where there is no "automatic duration", unless you want to count function data variables that are pushed onto the stack when the function is called. Static...

I think I'll use CBuilder -- the command-line tools are free at the moment. Sounds good.

Thanks a lot!

I have read the Programming FAQ, to no avail. I have been using Dev-C++ and MinGW for a month now, and lately I have been very unhappy with MinGW. Firstly, I am not currently interested in...

Hammer,

Thank you for the clarification. How can I use ifstream in binary mode so that I get the file exactly byte-for-byte? I thought get() would solve that problem but apparantly not...

-JMB

So am I to understand that the file stream swallow the CR/LF characters and replaced it with one character?

With a background in DOS, I always understood that newlines in text files required TWO characters rather than one like on UNIX. So if I'm reading one character at a time using get(), how can I check...