Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcrware!pgthor!dev386!beckman
From: beckman@dev386.UUCP (Zacharias Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Dialog Structure and File I/O
Summary: Undocumented file I/O routines
Keywords: dialog structure, file routines
Message-ID: <431@dev386.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 89 18:30:14 GMT
References: <213@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> <1678@cps3xx.UUCP>
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City
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In article <1678@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) 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

You will find that in the latest version of the SDK, the functions that
Petzold calls have been renamed -- to uppercase (why? who knows...).  So,
_lseek is now _LSEEK, etc.  If this doesn't work, send me mail; we use them
extensively here.

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