Hello Richard!

Tuesday November 14 1995 13:16, Richard Stack wrote to All:

RS> /* error checking removed */
RS> LONG lDistance = 0;
RS> PULONG pNewPtr;

Change to
    ULONG ulNewPtr;

RS> rc1 = DosOpen (pchFile, &hFileHandle, &ulAction, 0, FILE_NORMAL,
RS>                 OPEN_ACTION_OPEN_IF_EXISTS |
RS>                 OPEN_ACTION_CREATE_IF_NEW,
RS>                 OPEN_ACCESS_READWRITE |
RS>                 OPEN_SHARE_DENYREADWRITE |
RS>                 OPEN_FLAGS_RANDOM, NULL );
RS> rc2 = DosSetFilePtr (hFileHandle, lDistance, FILE_END, pNewPtr); // Move
RS> pointer to end

change to
 rc2 = DosSetFilePtr (hFileHandle, lDistance, FILE_END, &ulNewPtr);

RS> rc3 = DosWrite ( hFileHandle, (PVOID)&ClientData, sizeof
RS> (ClientData), &ulWritten);DosClose (hFileHandle);

That should solve the problem. You simply didn't have the memory allocated
wherever pNewPtr was pointed to which was causing the exception.

Doug

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