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From:	Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
To:	"'Mumit Khan'" <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>,
	Oliver Oberschelp
	<ober AT MLaP DOT DE>
Cc:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	RE: Problems with dll-generation under Win98
Date:	Thu, 8 Jul 1999 00:37:19 +0200
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Hi Mumit,

looks like you accidently omitted the critical word,
so to clarify for newbies:
Win9x does *not* zero out files past seek!
(as it should like Unix and NT)


Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mumit Khan [SMTP:khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 07, 1999 21:20
> To:	Oliver Oberschelp
> Cc:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject:	Re: Problems with dll-generation under Win98
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Oliver Oberschelp wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've got a strange problem with building dlls under Win98.
> > Considering the following example for a batch file:
> 
> Known problem. Win9x does zero out files if you seek past the end and
> write. NT loader seems to be more forgiving and can successfully load
> some of these DLLs, but Win9x does not.
> 
> Regards,
> Mumit

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