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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: GSOS Bug
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Date: 17 Oct 90 01:22:27 GMT
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herwin@pro-novapple.cts.com (Harry Erwin) writes:

>I've been running into a problem with the following sequence of actions:
>1.  seek to word zero.
>2.  write 28 bytes.
>3.  seek to word zero.
>4.  write a different 28 bytes.
>5.  close.
>Afterwards, when I examine the file, I discover that the first write was done
>but not the second.  The code is SYS-V C and works on all the other machines
>I've ported it to.

What compiler and version are you using? I have a beta of ORCA/C whose fread
and fwrite functions cause weird side effects. I have learned not to use them
until I get the 1.1 update (assuming that fixes them).

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu