Hi, Andrew.

AC> 12 Mar 96 06:02, Frank Malcolm wrote to Paul Edwards:

AC>  PE>> **  HEXDUMP.C - Dump a file.

AC>  > AAMOI why do you get to "start" by reading bytes
rather than setting
AC>  > the file pointer? Does not C have that capability, or isn't it part of
AC>  > your "standard"?

AC> Normally fseek would be used to set the file pointer.  Paul?

That's what I would have thought. Check the requested start against
the file size, then seek to it. But knowing how obsessed Paul is with
standards I thought maybe that function wasn't available in 'standard'
C, otherwise why the fuck wouldn't you use it.

Regards, FIM.

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