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From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.sources.games
Subject: Re: Hack on the PC.
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 01:39:57 EDT
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> I just ported hack version 1.0.2 to the PC using the Microsoft C compiler and
> everything seems to work fine except that when I save a game and try to restart
> it, I get a "Cannot read n bytes, read m bytes" message.  I checked it out and
> there seems to be no reason for this since the end of file has not yet been
> reached.  Has anyone else who ported hack to the PC encountered this problem.
> If anyone knows what the problem is I would appreciate if you could send me
> mail to tell me.
> 
> 	Thanks in advance
> 	Andre
> 	...!philabs!micomvax!andre

I suggest you check the MODE being used to read/write the files.  You
may need to set it to binary file mode?  Good luck.


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