Author: Hristo
Date: 22:13:36 06/17/98
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On June 17, 1998 at 15:41:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 17, 1998 at 14:06:11, Stuart Cracraft wrote: > >>On June 16, 1998 at 17:52:41, David Fotland wrote: >> >>>If this is a PC, you should open the file in binary mode. >>> >>>On the PC, end of lines are stored as CRLF, and a file opened in >>>ascii mode will convert LF to CRLF, adding an extra byte from >>>time to time. >>> >>>David Fotland >> >>File was non-text binary structs at the time the message was posted. >>Had already tried both w+b and w modes, both resulting in the extra >>byte. >> >>To fix, I've converted to a wholly text flat-file ascii which adds >>the ability for human editing and updates to the file to control learning. > >This is one of those approaches that I'd label "bad software engineering." > >IE you have a bug, so you change something and the bug goes away... or >does it? In your case, I can't imagine that this is a system problem >because my book and position files are binary, and they *never* pick up >odd bytes. If yours are, there is something going wrong, perhaps a wild >store, perhaps an undefined variable. Perhaps, uninitialized variable(!) or a loop_counter going one more than it should ... for(int iCount=0; iCount <= MAX_COUNTER; iCount) ... Best Regards. Hristo > But I wouldn't rest until I had >precisely "pinned the tail on the donkey" otherwise, such bugs have a nasty >way of coming back again and again, until they are fixed.
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