Hi, >this might be a little off topic but... :) >how can I read individual bytes from a file and push the value into a char >variable? >ie read the second byte of a file then push it in char secondByte man fgetc man fseek Example: file = fopen( "/etc/passwd", "rb" ); fseek( file, 1L, SEEK_SET ); secondByte = fgetc( file ); fclose( file ); ciao Anti --- http://webhome.nu/ Choice of a NU-Generation