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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de>
To: "'Mumit Khan'" <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>,
        Oliver Oberschelp
	 <ober@MLaP.DE>
Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.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@icon-gmbh.de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mumit Khan [SMTP:khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 07, 1999 21:20
> To:	Oliver Oberschelp
> Cc:	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.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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