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Can someone show me how to add 3 or so bytes to the end of a file? I
have been studying and I'm thinking fseek() and fgetc() might be involved. I
can't seem to find any examples online unless I'm overlooking something.
Nothing in C that is.

Bill

On 30-09-2012 21:40, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> Can someone show me how to add 3 or so bytes to the end of a file? I
> have been studying and I'm thinking fseek() and fgetc() might be involved. I
> can't seem to find any examples online unless I'm overlooking something.
> Nothing in C that is.
>
> Bill
>
>

if you know how to do some c programming,
than googling for:
c append to file
should solve your problem.

In article <k4a768$t96$>,
"Bill Cunningham" <> wrote:

> Can someone show me how to add 3 or so bytes to the end of a file? I
> have been studying and I'm thinking fseek() and fgetc() might be involved. I
> can't seem to find any examples online unless I'm overlooking something.
> Nothing in C that is.

FILE *f = fopen(path, "r+");
fseek(f, 0, SEEK_END);
fputs("3 or so bytes", f);
fclose(f);

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An tSin Gorm wrote:
> In article <k4a768$t96$>,
> "Bill Cunningham" <> wrote:
>
>> Can someone show me how to add 3 or so bytes to the end of a
>> file? I have been studying and I'm thinking fseek() and fgetc()
>> might be involved. I can't seem to find any examples online unless
>> I'm overlooking something. Nothing in C that is.
>
> FILE *f = fopen(path, "r+");
> fseek(f, 0, SEEK_END);
> fputs("3 or so bytes", f);
> fclose(f);

Sorry I meant fputc but I guess fputs would work.

Bill

Luuk wrote:

> if you know how to do some c programming,
> than googling for:
> c append to file
> should solve your problem.

Ok but I just want to make sure I am not appending a string or any text
data. I want to append '\0' to the end and be able to reverse it. This is
for an encryption project.

Bill

In article <k4a9do$3t7$>,
"Bill Cunningham" <> wrote:

> An tSin Gorm wrote:
> > In article <k4a768$t96$>,
> > "Bill Cunningham" <> wrote:
> >
> >> Can someone show me how to add 3 or so bytes to the end of a
> >> file? I have been studying and I'm thinking fseek() and fgetc()
> >> might be involved. I can't seem to find any examples online unless
> >> I'm overlooking something. Nothing in C that is.
> >
> > FILE *f = fopen(path, "r+");
> > fseek(f, 0, SEEK_END);
> > fputs("3 or so bytes", f);
> > fclose(f);
>
> Sorry I meant fputc but I guess fputs would work.
>
> Bill

Or fprintf or fwrite.

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An tSin Gorm wrote:
> In article <k4a9do$3t7$>,
> "Bill Cunningham" <> wrote:
>
>> An tSin Gorm wrote:
>>> In article <k4a768$t96$>,
>>> "Bill Cunningham" <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can someone show me how to add 3 or so bytes to the end of a
>>>> file? I have been studying and I'm thinking fseek() and fgetc()
>>>> might be involved. I can't seem to find any examples online unless
>>>> I'm overlooking something. Nothing in C that is.
>>>
>>> FILE *f = fopen(path, "r+");
>>> fseek(f, 0, SEEK_END);
>>> fputs("3 or so bytes", f);
>>> fclose(f);
>>
>> Sorry I meant fputc but I guess fputs would work.
>>
>> Bill
>
> Or fprintf or fwrite.

I'm kinda scratching my head here. Does you code append textual strings? I
want to append '\0' to the end of the file and be able to reverse that
process. Iprobably could go ahead and use a+ instead of r+ and skip the
fseek.

Bill

In article <k4aa6c$5u3$>,
"Bill Cunningham" <> wrote:

> An tSin Gorm wrote:
> > In article <k4a9do$3t7$>,
> > "Bill Cunningham" <> wrote:
> >
> >> An tSin Gorm wrote:
> >>> In article <k4a768$t96$>,
> >>> "Bill Cunningham" <> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Can someone show me how to add 3 or so bytes to the end of a
> >>>> file? I have been studying and I'm thinking fseek() and fgetc()
> >>>> might be involved. I can't seem to find any examples online unless
> >>>> I'm overlooking something. Nothing in C that is.
> >>>
> >>> FILE *f = fopen(path, "r+");
> >>> fseek(f, 0, SEEK_END);
> >>> fputs("3 or so bytes", f);
> >>> fclose(f);
> >>
> >> Sorry I meant fputc but I guess fputs would work.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >
> > Or fprintf or fwrite.
>
> I'm kinda scratching my head here. Does you code append textual strings? I
> want to append '\0' to the end of the file and be able to reverse that
> process. Iprobably could go ahead and use a+ instead of r+ and skip the
> fseek.

I'm used to unix so text and binary files are the same; you can add "b" if
appropriate. Once the file is positionned, you can write the bytes with whatever
technique will write the bytes.

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"Bill Cunningham" <> writes:

> Luuk wrote:
>
>> if you know how to do some c programming,
>> than googling for:
>> c append to file
>> should solve your problem.
>
> Ok but I just want to make sure I am not appending a string or any text
> data. I want to append '\0' to the end and be able to reverse it. This is
> for an encryption project.

If it relates to the programs you've been posting in
comp.unix.programmer this is the wrong way to pad the input so that it's
a multiple of 8 bytes in size.

--
Ben.

An tSin Gorm wrote:
> In article <k4a9do$3t7$>,
> "Bill Cunningham" <> wrote:
>
>> An tSin Gorm wrote:
>>> In article <k4a768$t96$>,
>>> "Bill Cunningham" <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can someone show me how to add 3 or so bytes to the end of a
>>>> file? I have been studying and I'm thinking fseek() and fgetc()
>>>> might be involved. I can't seem to find any examples online unless
>>>> I'm overlooking something. Nothing in C that is.
>>>
>>> FILE *f = fopen(path, "r+");
>>> fseek(f, 0, SEEK_END);
>>> fputs("3 or so bytes", f);
>>> fclose(f);
>>
>> Sorry I meant fputc but I guess fputs would work.
>>
>> Bill
>
> Or fprintf or fwrite.

Hum. I see fputs takes a char *. I don't think that will be what I'm looking
for. And fputc only passes one int which would be as '\0' ascii equivalent I
think I might need fwrite().

Bill