I read one character at a time and use my own end-of-data-field characters to indicate when to stop reading. So basically what I do after the obvious opening of the file stream is this:

    while((c=getc(filestream))!=''`''){      \\I use an accent character \\for the endof data field characterbuffer[x]=c;x++;}buffer[x]=''\0'';    

yup, that''s how I do it.

Are you even trying to be intelligent?
'cuz if you are, it ain't workin'

@Possibility

You can change the path where visual studio will search for files without giving a complete path in the project settings. The standard setting is the project directory and not the debug directory. This seems just right to me because when you compile a release version you will have to copy the file.

Yoshi