From: "Paul Vanukoff" <vanukoff AT primenet DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GPF when reading or writing files larger than a certain size
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 06:07:00 -0700
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Thanks. You were absolutely right. Operator (programmer) error as usual. I
was trying to access memory I didn't own ...

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Paul Vanukoff


"Edmund Horner" <ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz> wrote in message
news:967261321 DOT 630387 AT shelley DOT paradise DOT net DOT nz...
> It'll be due to where you get your buffer from.  How big is your buffer?
If
> you haven't actually allocated enough (or any) space for it, then the
limits
> your getting are probably where the actual memory given your program runs
> out.
>
> "Paul Vanukoff" <vanukoff AT primenet DOT com> wrote in message
> news:8o6e3g$itn$1 AT nnrp02 DOT primenet DOT com...
> >
> > Ah ... never mind. I am using fread() and fwrite() now. Works much
better.
> > Still if someone has an answer, I wouldn't mind knowing. Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Paul Vanukoff
> >
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