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From: roper@june.cs.washington.edu (Michael Roper)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: file i/o and lstrxxx()
Keywords: _lseek and ye shall find
Message-ID: <7219@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 89 07:33:50 GMT
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Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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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

I'm not sure what problem you are having, but both the file i/o
functions you mention and the lstrxxx() functions are still part 
of the SDK.  You'll find that "winexp.h" in the cardfile sample
code contains all the prototypes you need.  I doubt that these
functions will disappear anytime soon.  Try Online for more
reliable information on the Windows SDK.

Mike Roper