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In <DAO.92Jul22104319@d62iggy.mitre.org> 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.

There is a program called eddy6c1.zip , I think, and it disables the 8th
bit when it looks at files, thus converting high code letters into lower 
ones, it might help you.  It is available at garbo and simtel, in, I think
the /pc/dirutil and pd1:<msdos.dskutl> directories respectively.