filesize error

From: Imran (imran.ar_at_in.bosch.com)
Date: 08/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:46:31 +0530

Hello All

 Am trying to read a huge txt file and write to a file back.

 pls see the code

int main()
{
    char* pData;

    //write to some file
    GetData( pData);

    delete pData;

}
bool GetData( char* &pData)
{

 char pTempFileLocation="C:\\temp\\test.txt";

 //read back the data from the temp file
 FILE *fp = fopen(pTempFileLocation,"r+t");

 //This Code is to find the size of the file
 //simplest way
 fseek(fp,0L,SEEK_END);

 //now file poitner in the last poisition.
 //so pos will have the size :)
 long pos = ftell(fp);

 //move the file pointer back to begin
 //for reading..
 fseek(fp,0L,SEEK_SET);*/

 //allocate the data with the pos
 pData = new char[pos];

 //Just Inializing the pData to null
 //for safe side initialization
 memset(pData,0,pos);

 //read the data back and update the passes variable
 if(fp)
  fread(pData, sizeof( char ),pos,fp);
 else
 // file not found
 return false;
 fclose(fp);

 return true;
}

The problem is, I am getting the filesize correctly in the pos var. And am
allocatiin the pData correctly.
but while writing back to new file, it writes some more junk characters.Y it
is so.

File size is > 3MB.

am using MSVC as the compiler

THanks in Adv

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