On 6:10 AM 1/17/01 "Larry F. Allen-Tonar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> MacOS likes to limit chunks of things to 32K, so you'd probably want
> to limit your Mac-based I/O to that size.
Where do you get that impression?
BBEdit reads files in huge chunks (8MB) and only then to avoid bugs in
third party scsi drivers which get upset if you issue a huge read.
You can certainly read more than 32k at a time, and it is often more
efficient to do so.
If you are going to chunk your reads, do so in multiples of 512 bytes.
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