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Ah! Thank you grumpy. That makes sense. So I'll give lseek a shot.

Thanks!

I am playing around with the read(), write(), and open() system calls. I wrote a function to open/create 3 files, a function to write a test message to the files, and a file to read and print to the...

Thank you Salem, my program is now working.

Thank you for answering. Im not sure if I understand how to apply what you said though. The > has a higher precedence than the =. So the value of read_size is the result of read(..)>0.

If I...

I am have written some code to send a file using TCP sockets in linux. On the receiving end I have the code fragment shown below. It works great and writes the file correctly, but since read blocks...

Thanks Ill take a look at utime()!

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Using stat() you can retreive information about a file, is there a similar function to or way to set the values? If you modify a value in the stat structure that you populate, can you...

Hey, thank you for replying. Sorry to have wasted your time. I'm not sure why it worked when he did it but I've figured out what was happening. It was determining the maxlength for the current...

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I am going through an example for a class and ran into something that is not working for me the same way as it did for the professor when he demonstrated it.

He use:


printf(%*s...

Thanks for the reply. That is very interesting stuff. Its so fascinating what consequences there can be to something that seems so small. So is there ever any reason to use a function like gets()...

Thank you both for answering, I definitely do not want to violate the rules of the forum. It was just a thought that popped in my head when fiddling around. Thanks for replying.

Hello. I was playing around with gets(), specifically because its supposed to be insecure. The program accepts a string of 5 chars, and is only there for me to be able to play with what happens...

Yep, that did it. Thank you very much.

I created a program to count the number of characters in a file, it compiles fine and is a really basic program. When I go to redirect a text file to the program I get an error. chrcnt is the...

Thank you Tater. Ill look up fscanf() and see if I can get a better grip on this. I appreciate the information.

Thank you for the reply. That does make sense that I would need to work with the data for anything to change. Do you have any information as to why it would get larger? I keep reading that writing...

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I am working with file I/O at the moment. I am attempting to read in numbers from an ascii file and then write them to a binary file. My program is opening the ascii file correctly, and...

Thank you both for your replies.

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I am writing a program for the problem: Write a function that receives a string, and returns a pointer to the first non space character in the string.

I could do it more simply by just...