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Title: port this dos interrupt to windows api
Post by: NOVARSEG on October 27, 2020, 11:01:03 pm

Ok this is a really important dos interrupt!

http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-3179.htm

It allows file pointer operations on files up to 2^32 - 2 bytes

 QB64 could in theory handle any dos interrupt

Title: Re: port this dos interrupt to windows api
Post by: SMcNeill on October 28, 2020, 03:12:20 am

If you need file pointers and such, just use _UNSIGNED _OFFSETs or _INTEGER64.  Then you have access to 2 ^ 64 bytes.  Why limit yourself to 32-bits when you can easily work with 64?

As for the 2^32 file size, you can just use an _UNSIGNED LONG to hold values that large.

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