_dos_write

Syntax

#include <dos.h>

unsigned int _dos_write(int handle, const void *buffer, unsigned int count,
                        unsigned int *result);

Description

This is a direct connection to the MS-DOS write function call (%ah = 0x40). No conversion is done on the data; it is written as raw binary data. This function writes count bytes from buffer to handle. count value may be arbitrary size (e.g. > 64KB). It puts number of bytes written into result if writing is successful.

See section _dos_open. See section _dos_creat. See section _dos_creatnew. See section _dos_read. See section _dos_close

Return Value

Returns 0 if successful or DOS error code on error (and sets errno to EACCES or EBADF)

Portability

not ANSI, not POSIX

Example

int handle;
unsigned int result;
char *filebuffer;

if ( !_dos_creat("FOO.DAT", _A_ARCH, &handle) )
{
   puts("FOO.DAT creating was successful.");
   if ( (filebuffer = malloc(130000)) != NULL )
   {
     ...
     /* Put something into filebuffer. */
     ...
     if ( !_dos_write(handle, buffer, 130000, &result) )
       printf("%u bytes written into FOO.DAT.", result);
     else
       puts("Writing error.");
   }
   _dos_close(handle);
}

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