How can I modify my code to read from a file input in client and then communicate it to a server? - file-io

Question

Code:
//server.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <WinSock2.h>
#include <Windows.h>
#define SCK_VERSION 0x0202
int main()
{
//declare sockets first
SOCKET ConSock; // used for connection, hence the name
SOCKET ListenSock; // used for listening from the server
SOCKADDR_IN address; //socket address
int addrsize = sizeof(address);
long ok;
char MESSAGE[200];
char reply[200];
WSADATA WSD;
WORD DllVersion;
DllVersion = MAKEWORD(2,1);
ok = WSAStartup(DllVersion, &WSD);
//start creating our sockets
ConSock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, NULL);
address.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
address.sin_family = AF_INET;
address.sin_port = htons(10103);
ListenSock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, NULL);
bind(ListenSock, (SOCKADDR*)&address, sizeof(address));
listen(ListenSock, SOMAXCONN);
printf("Server waiting for connections\n\n");
for(;;){
if (ConSock = accept(ListenSock, (SOCKADDR*)&address, &addrsize))
{
ok = recv(ConSock, MESSAGE, sizeof(MESSAGE),NULL);
printf("\nClient says:\t %s", MESSAGE);
printf("\nEnter reply:\t");
gets(reply);
ok = send(ConSock,reply,200,NULL);
}
}
}
//client.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <WinSock2.h>
#include <Windows.h>
#define SCK_VERSION 0x0202
int main()
{
SOCKET sock;
SOCKADDR_IN address;
long ok;
char MESSAGE[200];
char reply[200];
WSADATA WSD;
WORD DllVersion;
DllVersion = MAKEWORD(2,1);
ok = WSAStartup(DllVersion, &WSD);
address.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
address.sin_family = AF_INET;
address.sin_port = htons(10103);
for(;;)
{
sock = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,NULL);
connect(sock, (SOCKADDR*)&address, sizeof(address));
printf("\nEnter Message:\t");
gets(MESSAGE);
ok = send(sock,MESSAGE,200,NULL);
ok = recv(sock,reply,sizeof(reply),NULL);
printf("\nServer says:\t %s",reply);
}
}
//makefile
server:
g++ server.c -o server
client:
g++ client.c -o client
clean:
rm server
rm client
all: server client
This runs with -lwsock32 and it does a good job, but I need to adjust it now to comunicate some data from a file, the data is mostly values of voltages, currents, active reactive power, etc.
I have been trying for quite some time and I cannot seem to adjust it.
If you can rewrite it in terms of the client communicating the values(that are stored in a file) to the server, that will be great. Any help is greatly appreciated, as I am not being succesful currently.