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Subject: Re: Dialog Structure and File I/O
Keywords: dialog structure, file routines
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Date: 31 Jan 89 22:26:00 GMT
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Reply-To: riordan@frith.UUCP (Mark Riordan {of Systems})
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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In article <213@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> cps3xx!eecae!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!secola!ramspott ramspott@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM (John Ramspott) writes:
>Second, I noticed that many of the programs in the Petzold book don't link
>under Windows 2.1. They can't find any of the "undocumented" file I/O
>like _lseek, _lread, _lwrite, etc. I called Microsoft and they said they
>had been removed in the "upgrade" :-). They recommend writing these routines

This is puzzling, because I have Windows 2.1 and SDK 2.1, and I have
successfully called _lread (and I think _lseek) in a program I compiled with
the Small memory model.  In fact, I learned about _lread from Petzold's
book, which I highly recommend (like everyone else).