G'Day Keith,
 
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 KF> Hello everyone, could some body please help me.. I'm trying to
 KF> write a  structure to a file, but i can't get it.. i've tried commands
 KF> like WRITE,  FWRITE, FPUTS, PUTC , PUTS etc etc.. but can't get it to
 KF> go..  I think my  structures right, here it is:

 KF> typedef unsigned byte char;
The compiler may not like this line, but i do :-) 
It's not needed anyway..                   

 KF> STRUCT names {
 KF> byte firstname;  
 KF> byte lastname;
 KF> };
 KF> STRUCT names writenames;
 KF> Will that work?? :-).. any help would be appreciated..
Don't see struct in upper case too often, dunno if it'll compile like that.

Oh, and a name into a byte just won't go :-) 

struct names{
             char firstname[20];
             char lastname [20];
             };
             
             
struct names writenames;

int rite_names()
{
 FILE *outfile;
 outfile = fopen("namefile.dat","wb"); /* make sure
it's opened binary!! */
 if(NULL == outfile) return FALSE;
 fwrite(writenames,sizeof(struct names),1,out);
 fclose (out);
 return TRUE;
 }
    
    
To read open the file with "rb", and using fread() with the same
parameters 
what fwrite() used should work just fine.
                                   

  L8r Frank (fadam{at}ozemail.com.au).
                                     
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