From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: file max sizes?
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 12:57:45 -0800
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Jeffrey A Studer wrote:


> it seems that
> reading 40 bytes from a file at once, occasionally gives a SIGSEGV fault
> at
> runtime ( I wish i knew what these runtime error messages meant, as well.
> Is there a FAQ on DOS error messages? ).  I WAS trying to read a minimum
> of
> 280 bytes, in one pass.  I will resort to reading 4 bytes at a time ,
> unless someone can assist me.

Problem it's that whatever buffer you're trying to read it into isn't big
enough.

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