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From: "Ekkehard Morgenstern" <ekkehard.morgenstern@onlinehome.de>
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Subject: Re: [announcement] SYSAPI and SYSSVC for Windows
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:10:44 +0100
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"Ekkehard Morgenstern" <ekkehard.morgenstern@onlinehome.de> wrote:
> Note: The Windows Platform SDK documentation now (02/2003) states that 
> asynchronous file I/O is possible with Windows 95, 98 and ME (i.e. the 
> comments from some years before where it said it wasn't possible have been 
> removed). It could be that it's still not possible with those OSes, I cannot
> verify this. If you can, please notify me of the results.

Indeed, in the API documentation for ReadFileEx() I found the confirmation
that on Windows 95, 98 and ME, there's no asynchronous file access.

I just fixed the code to emulate asychronous file I/O on these OSes by
using synchronous I/O instead (untested, but should work).

Download the new version here:

http://www.ekkehardmorgenstern.de/ada-sysapisvc-03121502.zip

Regards,
Ekkehard Morgenstern.