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From: larrys@watson.ibm.com (Larry Salomon, Jr.)
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Subject: Re: Reading more than 64K
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.163255.7751@watson.ibm.com>
Date: 30 Apr 91 16:32:58 GMT
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In <1991Apr26.092056.8951@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, gah@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Geln A. Herrmannsfeldt) writes:
>
>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.

That is for DosAllocSeg.  DosRead does not support 65536 byte reads (it's
in the docs).

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

Cheers,
Larry Salomon, Jr. (aka 'Q')            LARRYS@YKTVMV.BITNET
OS/2 Applications and Tools             larrys@ibmman.watson.ibm.com
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center         larrys@eng.clemson.edu
Yorktown Heights, NY

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