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From: mcguffey@unc.cs.unc.edu (Michael McGuffey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: C RTL [again?]
Message-ID: <552@unc.cs.unc.edu>
Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 11:05:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: unc.552
Posted: Sun Jun  7 11:05:45 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jun-87 01:12:35 EDT
References: <12308535119.47.AWALKER@RED.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: mcguffey@unc.UUCP (Michael McGuffey)
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In article <12308535119.47.AWALKER@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> AWalker@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (*Hobbit*) writes:
>Did I miss it back whenever, or is there really a bug in VAXCRTL that silently
>limits the size of a read() to 65535 bytes?  I found this the hard way, while
>-------

I have recently been having trouble doing reads of around 1/2M at a time
I got around it by reading in sections of 1K chunks.  Since
I only needed the program once, I didn't fine tune itto see the
largest read I could perform.  I like DEC equipment and software but it seems
funny that they would claim in the VAX C ref manual that
they want to maintain compatibility with unix c but
have such a glaring bug.

Does anybody have a patch or fix?

--mike
mcguffey@dopey.cs.unc.edu
mcguffey@csnet