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From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: C I/O differences (HELP!)
Keywords: lseek
Message-ID: <17938@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 5 Jan 89 08:48:50 GMT
References: <3023@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Organization: Wolfskill residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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In article <3023@paris.ics.uci.edu> mac@ics.uci.edu (MAC ICS199 ACCOUNT) writes:
>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.

 Remember that MPW C and THINK_C have different-sized ints (MPW's are 32 bits,
while THINK's are 16). lseek returns a long int. Could that be the problem?

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

 The same guys who called it "pleasant, expressive, and versatile" :-)

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