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From: rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: *** USING _llseek WITH LARGE FILES ***		|(8> HELP <8)|
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Date: 17 Apr 91 18:56:18 GMT
Reply-To: rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson)
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Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
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Someone,

	According to the SDK, I should be able to open a file,

		hFile = _lopen("myfile.txt", OF_READ);

	Notice that this is a text file, not a binary one.

	Then, I should be able to "randomly" access the end of the
	file,

		_llseek(hFile, (long int)newPosition, 2);

	The "2", of course, is the iOrigin specifying that the 
	newPosition is an offset from the END OF THE FILE.

	But this never works.

	The return value of _llseek (the new file position) is always
	a large negative number.

	How can I get around this?

	This file is a very large file.

	I thought I remember reading something about files larger than
	64k and how one must get around this.

	I would appreciate anyones help.

	Thanks.
---
Robert
rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu