This comes up all too often. Windows has text files. Unix does not. Unix is not Windows. In Unix a file is a file is a file. It's a bag of bytes. Period.
Because a standard C string uses ASCII zero (nul character) as the end of string, that data from files that contain nuls (in Windows these are binary files, in Unix they are just files) cannot be parsed as strings because the nuls confuse everything.
To the OP: try
to find out what is in the file. Then you will know if you can read it using standard string C calls like fgets(). Or if you will have to use fread().
After you've programmed for a while you tend to bypass fread and fgets, especially when you're dealing with large files that may contain interesting stuff.
This reads an entire file containing anything into a buffer:
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Hi,
Please can any one tell me how to convert binary data to text format and vice versa.
If possible give me the algorithm or C program.
Thanks in advance
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svcdumplog
svcdumplog(1m)svcdumplog(1m)NAME
svcdumplog - Prints contents of a binary serviceability log file
SYNOPSIS
svcdumplog [-s num_of_entries] logfile
OPTIONS
The -s flag tells svcdumplog to skip the first num_of_entries log entries before printing, where num_of_entries is a number.
DESCRIPTION
The svcdumplog program will print the contents of a binary log file.
DCE components log important information about their activities and state via the DCE serviceability interface. The log messages can be
routed as desired via the dcecp log object. The messages can also be written in either binary or in text format (information about specify-
ing message format can be found in svcroute(5)). When binary format has been specified for a component's messages, each log entry will be
written as a binary record of data defined (in dce/svclog.h) as the contents of the serviceability prolog structure. The svcdumplog utility
will print the contents of such a binary log file as readable text.
RELATED INFORMATION dce_svc_log_get(3), dce_svc_log_close(3), dce_svc_log_open(3), dce_svc_log_rewind(3), svcroute(5), log(1m)
Books: OSF DCE Porting and Testing Guide, OSF DCE Application Development Guide
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