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From: gah@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Geln A. Herrmannsfeldt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Reading more than 64K
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.092056.8951@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 09:20:56 GMT
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I thought I saw that putting 0 in for the length gives 65536 bytes,
but I can't right now find it in the book.  

The length parameter is short, so a number greater than 65536 could
not be specified.