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From: hagins@gamecock.rtp.dg.com (Jody Hagins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 2.0 absread() problems...
Message-ID: <1991May20.213220.29050@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 20 May 91 21:32:20 GMT
References: <1991May8.003701.28348@umbc3.umbc.edu> <20370001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Sender: hagins@gamecock (Jody Hagins)
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In article <20370001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>, frankr@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Frank Root ) writes:
|> There is a problem with the Borland C++ absread().  After spending
|> an entire night trying to get it to work I found that the DOS
|> interrupt utilities for absolute read and write handle the
|> arguments differently depending on the DOS version ie. 3.3 vs 4.01.
|> I ended up writing my own AbsRead() and AbsWrite().  I'm at home
|> now and the code is on my machine at the office.  I'll post the
|> source when I get back from Comdex.
|> 
|> Frank Root, Boise


There is a patch for BC++ 2.0 which claims to fix another problem.
However, it has been noted that this patch also fixes wierdness
in absread().

The patch can be found at Simtel20.

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