Hello Adam,
Thursday, May 15, 2003, 8:06:42 AM, you wrote:
>> I'm using CFileStatus to get attributes of a file. When I first
>> installed XP pro I used the backup program to create a complete backup
>> of one of my partitions as a test. When the following code tries to
>> get the attibutes of that file it causes an assertion failure at the
>> GetStatus call. A search on the net said that CFileStatus has a limit
>> of 4 GB. Since the file it is failing on is over 9 GB, that is
>> probably the problem. My file manager reads, and can change, the
>> attributes with no trouble. Any idea how I go about just reading them?
> How about 'GetFileInformationByHandle'?
From the desctiption this sounds like what I need but the warning
causes some concern:
"you should not use GetFileInformationByHandle unless your application
is intended to be run on a limited set of operating system
configurations."
Any idea what they are warning about? How do I know what
configurations it won't work on?
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