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Subject: C I/O differences (HELP!)
Keywords: lseek
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Date: 4 Jan 89 07:19:08 GMT
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[coming from a Pascal programmer -- trying to port a C program...]

I'm trying to port a relatively simple C program to both ThinkC 3.0+ and
MPWC 2.0.2.  However, I'm getting two different results during a lseek
function.  ThinkC seems to adjust the EOF if the lseek is past the current
EOF, but MPW gives you an error (trying to seek past end of file). I'd like
the same behaviour as Think.

Does anyone know of a way to handle this? (I looked through the I/O libraries
but couldn't find a function which sets the end of file. My last resort
is to convert all the I/O to low level PBxxx calls, but I'd like to 
avoid that...). Thank to anyone, in advance.

(jeez, who said C was portable???)

Greg Finnegan
mac@ics.uci.edu