C/C++ :: Reading And Writing Bit To A File

I'm writing a program using Huffman algorithm to compress text file. I have tested my program by just printing the printing ASCII character to file and it worked fine. However, now I have to implement using bits and my program doesn't work. It seems like I'm not reading or writing the right bits. Here is the result of my testing:In the input file I put abc the input file to compress it. Then I uncompress it the out out is aaa. Below is a snippet of how I read and write bits

public:

BitInputStream(istream& s) : in(s), buf(0), bufi(8) { }
/** Read the next bit from the bit buffer.
* Return the bit read as the least significant bit of an int.
*/
int readBit(){
int i;
if(nbits == 8){
buf = in.get();

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