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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Orca lseek problem
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.223026.18802@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 22:30:26 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.194653.31383@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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bazyar@ernie (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:

>   I seem to be having a problem with the Orca lseek call (it's documented
>in the release notes for 1.1).  I'm giving it a valid file descriptor,
>a longword offset (which is in range for the file in question), and a 0
>which means offset from beginning of file.  No matter what I do (like
>hardcoding values into the call) I get a "invalid parameter" error back
>from it.
>   Anyone else have similar problems?

I remember this being posted before a few months ago by Chan Wilson; my
suggestion was to use GS/OS directly or to write replacements for that section
of the Orca library, which if I remember correctly is pretty simple and is
not far above GS/OS calls (most of which I have tested code for from another
project).

Mail me with what you need to do, maybe we can whip up something quick to fix
it.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu