| From: | James L Boyd |
| Date: | 15 May 2000 at 00:58:24 |
| Subject: | Re: Bug in Lof? |
Two things: make sure your variable storing Lof is a long, and secondly,
remember that the length of the file includes position 0, so the position of
the last byte is Lof-1...
Don't know if that's any use, but something to check anyway...
See ya,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gareth Griffiths" <gazchap@btinternet.com>
To: "Blitz List" <blitz-list@netsoc.ucd.ie>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 12:23 AM
Subject: Bug in Lof?
> Hello,
>
> I think I mayhave found a bug in the Lof(File#) command.
>
> I have an MP3 that is 734900 bytes long, and I want to read the ID3 TAG
info
> from it. I already know that the string "TAG" is present about 128 bytes
> back from the END of the file, and this starts the tag definitions.
>
> However, I ReadFile the MP3, then get its length using Lof, FileSeek to
that
> position minus 128, and then read in a 3char string.
>
> But, it didn't work. So I put in a debug style line after the Lof to find
> ou just exactly what position it was going to....
>
> 14004, not 734900.
>
> What's going on?!?!?! :)
>
> Catch ya later,
> GazChap.
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