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I'm trying to read entire large files into memory on the Mac.  (for speed
in writing them out)  Since I can't figure out how get the total size
of a file, I devised the following code.  Unfortunately, it doesn't
seem to work correctly.  Any comments would be appreciated.  For some
reason, it always reads 79 blocks from every file when run from a
MacII, and 44 blocks when run from a Plus.

#define MAXBUFF 153600 /* room for three hundred blocks */
do_read_file(fp)
FILE *fp;
{

  unsigned char buffer[300 * 512];
  unsigned char *buff;  /* I would have used malloc or calloc, but */
			/* everytime I called them the system crashes */

  buff = buffer;
  while((!feof(fp) && ((buff - buffer) <  MAXBUFF)){
    length = fread(buff,sizeof(char),512,fp);
    buff += length;
    }

  fclose(fp);

}



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