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Re: changes to exe (binary) file --- THANKS ALL!

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From: Gary Fritz (tmp)
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 21:36
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jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham) writes:
: I finally ended up with a simple process where the filesize is determined,
: a buffer large enough to hold the file is malloc'ed (in smaller chunks to
: avoid one block of data > 64k...geez, you'd think the people writing C
: compilers could handle that in the background and make a more correctly
: behaved C compiler).

Don't blame C, blame MSDOS and the underlying Intel hardware.

Gary
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Subject: Re: changes to exe (binary) file --- THANKS ALL!
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