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RE: Problems with dll-generation under Win98
- To: 'Mumit Khan' <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>, Oliver Oberschelp <ober@MLaP.DE>
- Subject: RE: Problems with dll-generation under Win98
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 00:37:19 +0200
- Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Hi Mumit,
looks like you accidently omitted the critical word,
so to clarify for newbies:
Win9x does *not* zero out files past seek!
(as it should like Unix and NT)
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mumit Khan [SMTP:khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 21:20
> To: Oliver Oberschelp
> Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: Problems with dll-generation under Win98
>
> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Oliver Oberschelp wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've got a strange problem with building dlls under Win98.
> > Considering the following example for a batch file:
>
> Known problem. Win9x does zero out files if you seek past the end and
> write. NT loader seems to be more forgiving and can successfully load
> some of these DLLs, but Win9x does not.
>
> Regards,
> Mumit
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