globally defining large arrays

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From: Seth Chaiklin
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:33

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Dear DOS-ites,

I am trying to port a program from unix to MS-DOS (using TC 2.0).  I
have run into a problem with a large (40,000 element, unsigned
integer) array.  I get a "Too much global data defined in file" error
message.  So I figure the "trick" is to define a far pointer and then 
read in values from a file.  Well I have tried this, but without much
success.   Is this because it is not possible (I hope not)?  Or is it
because I have not mastered the right syntax (much more likely)?

[For what it is worth, I got the exact same error in the same place
when I had a friend compile the source file in BC++ 3.0, but it
compiled with no problems under OS2/2.0]

Any advice (or just undocumented code) is appreciated.

Humbly yours,

 Seth Chaiklin
 psykseth@aau.dk

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From: psykseth@aau.dk (Seth Chaiklin)
Subject: globally defining large arrays
Message-ID: <1992Dec21.173347.19320@aau.dk>
Summary: How do I define a global array over 64K?
Organization: Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:33:47 GMT
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