Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/16/00:12:40
From: | Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: | Re: file max sizes?
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Date: | Sat, 15 Mar 1997 12:57:45 -0800
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Organization: | Alcyone Systems
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Message-ID: | <332B0D49.19B8FBDC@alcyone.com>
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Jeffrey A Studer wrote:
> 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.
Problem it's that whatever buffer you're trying to read it into isn't big
enough.
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Alcyone Systems / web: http://www.alcyone.com/max/
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