> Hello,
>
> I'm using ROOT v 2.23/09 on a PC with NT v4 (sp5).
> fgets is not acting as expected. I recognized this behaviour some time
> ago.
> This function should read >1< line or MAX-1 characters from a file.
> Instead
> it reads always MAX-1 characters including newlines (0x0d 0x0a).
>
This sounds like CINT "defaults" are "UNIX" defaults. Namely,
CINT opens files in "binary" mode.
UNIX opens the file as "binary" "by default, "native" NT does
the "text" default.
This means to make code portable the user should always specify
whether he wants the file to be open as "binary" or "text"
It is true for the "plain" C/C++ environment as well (with no ROOT/CINT
involved).
From another hand one has to choose which text format he is going
to play with "UNIX" / "NT".
Do you want to share the text files between UNIX and NT? It is question too.
The ROOT assumption the files should be shared and by this reason they are
UNIX text files.
Keep in mind:
- Usually few UNIX utilities can manage NT text files
- Usually any NT utility can "understand" the UNIX text format as well.
if decide to stick UNIX formsat then you have to make sure your favorite editor
can save the file in UNIX format (almost all of them can read UNIX text
but many of them write out NT text format only (for example MS DevStudio
> Do I have to switch to C++ streams?
Very likely there you face the same problem ?
May be Masa Goto can comment how the default mode to open files
is chosen.
Valery
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