Hello experts,

please help me i am not able to understand how to solve this,

what i am trying to do is in client server environment i am using file I/O amd memory map to transfer the file,
means when a client requests any file from server , the server opens the file in rb mode and read the contents and send the data to the client and on client side the client opens in write mode and write to this file,
means iam using simple i/o or mmap for this for the same how to transfer the .gif or any image file like this,
when i try to do it says the file cannot be opened with "w" mode on server side,

i am using c/c++ language in programming,
plz help me.

Can you show us your code please?

you need to modify your code to read such files.

Thank you for reply,

but how if you have any reference or program please redirect,

but how to achieve this, please inform.
how separately to deal for gif images , and also i have doubt what are .xpm files, pease explain.

See Wikipedia's entry for X PixMap

Thank you for your reply,
i got some idea about the xpm , can anybody who had done some image transfer from server to client like file transfer please provide me some clue.

how to transfer images from server side to client side.

please help.