Are you on a Windows platform of some kind (I guess so, from your mail headers)? I vaguely remember having a problem like this (in Python, IIRC) because MSDOS used ^Z (ASCII 26) as an end of file marker. So low-level Win32 file access routines still interpret this character as end-of-file. I got round the problem at the time by using binary i/o. I don't know whether this is possible in Haskell. Andrew On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:09:18PM -0300, Andre W B Furtado wrote:
Hello there. I was trying to read a bitmap file using hGetChar but I had a problem: if the file contains the byte 26-decimal (or 1A-hexa) the program aborts. Here you have the output:
Fail: end of file Action: hGetChar
Since hGetChar is implemented with getc, I created a similar program in C, using getc. This program written in C had no problems. Is this a haskell bug or does anyone know what's going on?
Thanks, Andre Furtado