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  3. From: terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
  4. Subject: Re: Question on COFF file format
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep4.213546.23831@gateway.novell.com>
  6. Sender: terry@thisbe (Terry Lambert)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: thisbe.eng.sandy.novell.com
  8. Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT
  9. References:  <Bu2AJL.43K.1@cs.cmu.edu>
  10. Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:35:46 GMT
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  13. In article <Bu2AJL.43K.1@cs.cmu.edu>, dstewart+@cs.cmu.edu (David B Stewart) writes:
  14. |> 
  15. |> The header information gives the sizes of everything else, but not
  16.                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  17. |> for the string table.  However, to be able to allocate memory to
  18. |> store the string table, I have to know its size, but that doesn't
  19. |> seem to be available.
  20.  
  21. String table size = size of file from fstat() - total of everything else
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  23.  
  24.                     Terry Lambert
  25.                     terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
  26.                     terry@icarus.weber.edu
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  29. Disclaimer:  Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of
  30. my present or previous employers.
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