Reading from a binary file in a portable way

[Martin v. Loewis]

jb <egrossde at yahoo.de> writes:

> I should like to read a (binary) file x.y in a buffer and then do things 
> like getting the 16 bit integer that is at the offset n, n+1 in the file 
> (maybe lowbyte, then higyhbyte.
> 
> Previously I did it only under MS-Windows where for example I could open the 
> file with the flag O_BINARY but this is no longer possible under Linux.

If you can accept using the open() builtin, I recommend to pass it the
"b" flag; that works on all platforms.

Regards,
Martin