Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/10/04:54:46
"Jeffrey A Studer" (jstuder AT flash DOT net) writes:
> Hello all,
>
> I am very new to djgpp so pardon my ignorance. I have been opening and
> trying to read a file using open, and read. I was wondering if there is a
> maximum size of file that can be opened or read from. it seems that
> reading 40 bytes from a file at once, occasionally gives a SIGSEGV fault at
> runtime ( I wish i knew what these runtime error messages meant, as well.
> Is there a FAQ on DOS error messages? ). I WAS trying to read a minimum of
> 280 bytes, in one pass. I will resort to reading 4 bytes at a time ,
> unless someone can assist me.
Strange. I wrote a binary-hacker that, given a file to read and an output
file and a list of byte positions and new byte values, copies old to new
and changes the specified bytes. It reads the file in chunks of 800 bytes
at a time, into a buffer grabbed with a malloc.
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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh
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