"Jamie Lokier" <jamie_at_shareable.org> wrote:

> Historically, before the invention of off_t, long was used for file
> offsets not int. Is DOS lseek/fseek using int or long?

True for lseek(). But 'long int' for fseek() on Watcom:
  _WCRTLINK extern int fseek( FILE *__fp, long int __offset, int __whence );

and djgpp:
  int fseek(FILE *_stream, long _offset, int _mode);

--gv
Received on 2008-06-03