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From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How does Newzap work?
Summary: How does Seek work.
Message-ID: <2502@antique.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 21:55:45 GMT
References: <5079@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <5121@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <10234@well.UUCP> <5650@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <5650@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
<In article <10234@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:
<>It [VDK] doesn't correctly return the new position after each seek, so
<>if NewZAP was expecting this information it would probably go berserk.
<
<	Seek() is documented as returning the position in the file BEFORE the
<Seek was done.  Could you be more specific?

Are you sure about this?  I don't have my Amiga manual with me, but in Unix 4BSD,

LSEEK(2)  Upon successful completion, the current file pointer value is returned.

As in, pos = lseek(fd, 0, 2) gives the file size.

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