Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:33:24 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199801270133.UAA06134@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <199801270120.AA052814049@typhoon.rose.hp.com> (message from
	Andrew Crabtree on Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:20:49 PST)
Subject: Re: iostream concern
Precedence: bulk


Beware: in MS-DOS the file position may be negative.  At least, this
is what I remember from our discussion of the portability of lseek()
under "undefined" conditions.  Having a file position that doesn't
allow for negative numbers, when MS-DOS will gladly give you a
negative number, may cause obscure problems at runtime.