read from binary file

[Stefan Schwarzer]

Hello Stefan ;-)

Stefan Andreatta schrieb:
> [...]
> But the read() function always returns just some 1000 bytes of data and the
> stops.

This is probably due to some "end-of-file character" (Ctrl-Z on DOS,
OS/2, Windows, Ctrl-D on Unix, ? on Mac<-this is an embedded question
(on the character, not the Mac) ;-) ) in the file.

> Does anybody know, what could be the reason for that, and how I could read
> the whole file into a string?

As Ivan pointed out :-)  Additionally, it might be a good thing to
close the file when you don't need it open anymore. (It wasn't clear
from your posting if you finally closed the file.)

Stefan