Re: Advanced file manipulation (multiple question)

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

Since we seem to have lost the attribution that the original poster
was interested in Windows...

In article <QemVd.3382$L17.2090@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>, Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> writes:

> Right, but this is limited to files that will fit in memory. The streams 
> approach I described using varying-size chunks will work for all files, 
> and is equivalent to this approach for smaller files. In addition, it 
> does not require opening the file twice.

All Windows files ?

Certainly not all files.

Does that method preserve out-of-band record and page marks on other
operating systems ?

Certainly it does not preserve all the information, as would be the
case from calling an OS-specific procedure.