Re: DOS functions >64K?

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From: Rick Vandenberg
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1991 11:13

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> vhs@britesun.radig.de writes:
> 
> 
> Could anyone point me out how to malloc() or fread() blocks
> larger than 64KB? We are doing picture processing on >80MB
> pictures here, and it is extremely painful not to be able
> to read large chunks of the picture into memory. I could not
> find any documentation on this subject in TC++- nor DOS books,
> so I tried but all I get when malloc()ing or fread()ing large
> blocks is errors. Anyone out there to know something
> definite on this subject?
> 


Try using the HUGE model, or look up halloc(). I haven't tried this, but as far
as I know, it should work.

Rick.
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Rick Vandenberg                Rick_Vandenberg@Mindlink.UUCP
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