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From: Juha Ruotsalainen ti
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 09:51

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How can my program read a file bigger than 64k into memory. At the
moment I try to read 64k`s at a time and the rest of it (less than
64k) afterwards. But after I`ve read 0xffff bytes, the next DosRead
reads only 1 byte. Is there a problem with DosAllocHuge, I mean,
shouldn`t it allocate a memory block larger than 64k. I have traced
the DosRead call with CodeView, and was surprised to see that when the
program tried to point past 64k area (jimi[0x10000]) there was an I/O
error. I hope you understand my I`m trying to say here. Please help...
-ECS

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