From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Feb 24 08:32:43 2005
Subject: octave bug - ftell
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Michael McGrath <mmcgrath at peralex dot com>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:38:09 -0500

On 24-Feb-2005, Michael McGrath <mmcgrath at peralex dot com> wrote:

| I am running octave on win2000 and am having a problem using ftell which 
| is giving me incorrect results. The result returned by the second ftell 
| changes when I run the script multiple times
| 
|  >> version
| ans = 2.1.50

That's quite old.

I think ftell is unreliable for text files due to end-of-line
translations.  With 2.1.50, you will need to open files with "wb" and
"rb".  Since 2.1.57, binary mode is the default.

jwe



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