Jussi,

 > How come a friend of mine then made a program - in C -
 > for me
 > that reads a JPEG file appended to the .EXE and
 > displays it on
 > the screen? It works just as I explained: it seeks to
 > the end of
 > the .EXE and then starts reading in the JPEG data.

    Strictly speaking Robin is right, but if you are only interested in
MSDos, and have a compiler which supports language extensions, then
filesize(), fstat() or stat() will do it, but these are not part of the
ANSI standard.

    If you wish to stick to the ANSI standard, you must fopen( a stream)
then fseek() to the end of the file, and either start your reading from
there, or perform an fgetpos() or ftell() and use the information so
obtained. The interesting thing is what you don't mention - how your friend
extends the exe file length without messing up the exe header. :-)

    Hope this helps to explain what may have seemed inexplicable. :-)

best wishes,
Bill.

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