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   mutazilah@gmail.com to All   
   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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