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|    Re: common OS/BIOS    |
|    23 Oct 22 14:04:49    |
      From: muta...@gmail.com              I added this comment:              /* Note that a BIOS that uses this interface is unlikely to populate        all of these things, especially if running on hardware of the        1980s era. You can expect restrictions such as only fopen (of a        filename such as "0x80"), fread, fwrite, fseek actually working,        and only working if you give them offsets and lengths that are        multiples of 512 and/or the sector size. Also the buffer that        data is read into/written from may have alignment requirements        such as 16 bytes or 512 bytes. It depends on what is out there. */              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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