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From: Craig Graham <c_graham@hinge.mistral.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Help with MWwrite() function
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 10:27:14 +0100
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James Shaughnessy wrote:

> I would really appreciate help with this someone.  Please!
> I have posted some of the relevant code below, in case it's
> obvious and to save you dloading the file and all that malarky.
>
> Anyhoo, the problem is that it currently saves 74000 bytes, as
> opposed to the required 73728 (ie. exactly 72Kb == 0x12000), even
> though the functions are being called with 0x12000 as data size.
> The file it creates is MYPAL.DAT if you select "Save PAL replays"
> and it's this that should be exactly 73728 bytes.  Same for NTSC.
>
> http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~shaughnj/ftp/help.zip
>
> // snippet from the cw_dsave program
> // Saves PAL-demo memory block to host in MetroWerks CodeWarrior
> void SaveRecordToHost()
> {
>   int fd, bytes;
>   char *filename1 = "mypal.dat";
>   void *data;
>
>   data = (void *)(0x80196000);
>   fd = MWopen(filename1, FCREAT);

Should be  fd = MWopen(filename1, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT);

>   bytes = MWwrite(fd, data, 0x12000);  // 0x12000 = 73728 bytes
>   MWclose(fd);
> }
>
> I appreciate any help with this,

Get an AR ;)

> Jim

Craig.