VMS Help CC, Run-time functions, fread  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  Reads a specified number of items from a file.

  Syntax:

   #include <stdio.h>

   size_t fread(void *pointer, size_t size_of_item,
                size_t number_of_items, FILE *file_pointer);