Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:41:50 +0300
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Subject: Re: Fseek on STDIN problem on Win 2K
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:09:14 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> This problem is *NOT* limited to Windows 2K - the example program provided
> also fails on Windows NT 4.0 built with V2.03

Does the shell make any difference?

> Since lfn=n made a difference on w2k testing, and we could not figure
> out how that would cause anything different, I will hypothesize that
> there is some register in the regs structure we are passing that 
> fouls up one of these calls.  The random value somehow fouls up NT?

You could hack up the source to zero out all the registers before
filling them up with values, and see if that matters.