Hey fantastic, thanks a million, that's all it needed. I knew it must be
something with the filestream.... =)

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Ben Combee <ben.combee_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Aaron M <ajaymills_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello! This seems like a very odd problem. All my code here is designed
> to
> > do (for the moment), is to be passed a single flag from the commandline
> > which dictates the name of the file to create. A fixed URL is accessed
> and
> > it's contents are saved to that file. What's strange here though, is that
> > specifically for doc files and pdf files, the resulting file is corrupt.
> It
> > isn't empty, and even retains some of the file properties as the original
> > (creator, keywords, etc), but for pdfs there is no text inside, and for
> > docs, MSWord can not even open it. Does anything seem wrong in my code?
> Has
> > anyone seen a simple example very similar, perhaps?
> >
> > http://myweb.unomaha.edu/~amills/datasheetCL.cpp<http://myweb.unomaha.edu/%7Eamills/datasheetCL.cpp>
> >
>
> Since this is running on Windows, try creating your ofstream with
> (ios::binary | ios::out).
>
Received on 2008-07-04