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From: manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de (Manni Heumann)
Subject: Re: seekg() problem
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Marko Lavikainen <marko_lavikainen AT my-deja DOT com> wrote:
>I have this very annoying problem with seekg().
>It seems that seekg cannot access values above 32768. Am i correct?
>I tried command 'inputFile.seekg(40000)' and program crashed.
>
>What to do?
>

seekg() should certainly work on files larger than 32k, did 
it a couple of times and never had any trouble. Are you sure 
your program crashed in seekg()? I'm having a hard time 
believing that. Certainly seekg() can fail for various 
reasons, but crash?


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Manni

"Life would be much easier if I had the source code."