Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA From: cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: fread & the line eater Message-ID: <6783@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 26-Dec-84 10:07:25 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6783 Posted: Wed Dec 26 10:07:25 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Dec-84 08:08:11 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 9 [eat me] 1) sorry about the null & truncated msgs re: fread 2) when are lines eaten & not eaten? 3) re: fread i was trying to say look at the code for fread. it returns the number of items read. splice on the truncated msg you already read here. [etx]