pack_fread (3) Linux Manual Page

pack_fread – Reads n bytes from the stream. Allegro game programming library.

Synopsis

#include <allegro.h>

long pack_fread(void *p, long n, PACKFILE *f);

Description

Reads `n’ bytes from the stream `f’, storing them at the memory location pointed to by `p’. Example:

unsigned char buf[256];
... if (pack_fread(buf, 256, input_file) != 256)
    abort_on_error("Truncated input file!");

Return Value

Returns the number of bytes read, which will be less than `n’ if EOF is reached or an error occurs. Error codes are stored in errno.

See Also

pack_fopen(3), pack_fopen_chunk(3), pack_feof(3), expackf(3)