comp.lang.c

[Bob Church]

I've just started reading this newsgroup so forgive me if this is
an old question. I am trying to get the return value of fread into
a variable. The following line
while (rtns = (fread(buf,5,10,ioptr)) == 10)
rtns being an integer works as long as their are
50 byte chunks of data left to be read. The problem is that the
value that I then in rtns after each pass is either 1 if
successful or 0 on the last pass when the data has all been read.
How can I get the actual number of items read into a variable that
I can then use in the fwrite command? 
Thanks,

Bob Church
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