output capture file format

[ghadahelal]

hi all,
i have proramm which reads a *.cap file
i open this cap. file in binary format to read it,
now i want to write also an output file in this format output.cap.
i did that, i becam no errors and it works.
but when i tried to open this file
output.cap i becam an error as it's not a caputure file
my code is:( in this code i just try to read 4 variables and to write them in the outputfile)

string infile,outfile;
char a,b,c,d;
 
void main ()
{
 
 
    cout<<"Enter your input filename"<<endl;
        cin>>infile;
        ifstream myinfile;
 
myinfile.open(infile.c_str(), ios::binary );
 
        cout<<"Enter your output filename"<<endl;
        cin>>outfile;
        ofstream myoutfile;
        myoutfile.open(outfile.c_str(), ios :: binary);
 
 
        myinfile>>a>>b>>c>>d;
        myoutfile<<a<<b<<c<<d;         
}

[AdrianH]

Unless the .cap file is only 4 bytes long, then this won't work. You have to iterate over the entire file to make it work.

I would probably use read() and write() instead of reading in and writing out a byte at a time.

That or try using a copy/cp shell command. Its easier. ;)


Adrian