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From: garry@ceco.ceco.com (Garry Garrett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: writing a file byte by byte
Message-ID: <421@ceco.ceco.com>
Date: 2 Mar 91 00:03:22 GMT
References: <9527@hub.ucsb.edu>
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In article <9527@hub.ucsb.edu>, 6600bori@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Boris Burtin) writes:
> I'm using Turbo C 2.0 and DOS 3.3, and I'm attempting to write 8166 bytes
> to a file (for those who know what I'm talking about, this is a MIDI sysex
> file).  By the MIDIEX standard, this file should be 8166 bytes long, but
> when I write it, it turns out to be some 8300 or so bytes long.  Does anyone
> know how to solve this problem?  Thanks...
> 
> 	- Boris Burtin


	Can you give us the exact size?  I suspect that DOS is rounding
up to the next full block.  I am not sure how big a block is for DOS, I
think that it is 512 bytes (1/2 K)  People in comp.os.msdos.programmer
might know better than the folks here.

(There, isn't that much nicer than flamming the guy for being in the
"Wrong" group?)