Help reading a DOS file

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From: David A. Ondzes
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:43

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I need some help. One of my games writes it data to a file, and I would
like to read this file. When I type the file to the screen it shows up
as a bunch of happy faces etc ... so I am assuming it is a binary file.
Is this correct assumption ? I can make out some text in the file. I have
looked at the file with various hex edit programs to find out where the data
I want is.
 
	How do I read in the data ? I tried using fscanf(fd,"%x",&int). I would
like to be able to read in 2 hex digits at a time, because this is how I
saw the file with the hex editors mentioned above.

	Any help involing reading files that are not ascii text would also
be appreciated.


Please send replys to 
picasso@bass.bu.edu


Thank you
David Ondzes

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