Date: Wed, 28 Apr 93 17:13:20 +1000
From: graeme AT labtam DOT labtam DOT oz DOT au (Graeme Gill)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:  managing diff's


> From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
> 
> >I'm no DOS expert, but I thought FCB functions were an older, outdated
> >method of accessing DOS files.  Why would we want support for these in
> >go32?
> 
> The one thing you can't do without using FCB functions is to change the volume
> label on a disk.  Other than that, I agree with you.  (My interest in this is
> for a disk cataloging program which currently runs under DOS or the Ergo DOS
> extender.)  The FCB functions which I implemented do not include reading or
> writing files.

I've been investigating the trucate bug I posted on earlier,
and after looking through a description of the DOS system calls,
came to the conclusion that the only way you can truncate a file
is using FCB functions. Can anyone confirm that ?

	Graeme Gill.