From:	Isaac Waldron <waldroni AT lr DOT net>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP / 32bit <-> 16bit files r/w !?
Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 1998 21:42:10 -0500
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^Hawk^ (Thorsten Kaben) wrote:
> 
> Hello !
> 
> I've a problem ... I've a given struct of a 16bit file where an int
> 16bit is and a lon 32bit (only a 16bit file struct :) ... so far so
> good ... but how can I read / write 16bit files with DJGPP !?
> 
> If I try to translate the structs and read / write the 16bit files
> then I've never the stored datas and at the writing are my created
> files always to long ... if I've a file that's 338 bytes long and I
> try to write the same file then it's 588 bytes long ... :((= ...
> 
> Any hints !? What must / can I do !?
> 
> Bye, ^Hawk^. http://www.bubis.com/DarkSoft/

I had this problem when I was working on my .pcx file loading routines. 
Namely, the height and width as encoded in the file is a 16-bit integer
type, but DJGPP is 32-bits.  So, what I did was I changed all the ints
to shorts in DJGPP, which are 16-bit, and so worked perfectly.

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Isaac Waldron <waldroni AT lr DOT net>
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