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dao@d62iggy.mitre.org (David A. Ondzes) writes:


>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

First, make sure you open the file with a file type of "binary" not "text".
Second, try using "fgetc" to read the file a byte at a time.


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