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> From: Radical NetSurfer <RadSurfer AT yahoo DOT com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:34:07 -0500
> 
> 'off_t' is defined as a mere 'int' by the way, which in djgpp is
> 32-bit.

That is okay, since DJGPP v2.03 supports only 32-bit offsets into
files.  (The next v2.04 will support one extra bit, which is all that
Windows lets DOS programs use, even on 64-bit Windows filesystems.)

> We discovered that using only _dos_* functions, our program also
> consumed much more time than it should; using fread, etc., streaming
> file i/o is faster under DJGPP.

That hardly surprises me, since the standard library is well thought
and its implementation is already very optimized.

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