[ale] Stupid question

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

When I write the folling:

int c ='A'

to a file, the file is 4 bytes in size.  In realsity that value could be
stored in one byte.

When I look at the file, it looks like this:

A	NULL		NULL		NULL

using octal dump with the ascii option.  I'm trying to build a config file
that is created from
a sturcture of values.  The structure is very big.  My calculations of
locations were so wrong due to
ths size of an interger being 4 bytes on my machine.  Is there a way to make
the interger actually
1 byte so that the only thing in the file is A.

Thanks,
Chris Fowler


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