No MS-DOS Extended Error Info for Windows File Functions

 Last reviewed: July 23, 1997
Article ID: Q86648
3.10 WINDOWS kbprg

The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows version 3.1

When an application uses one of the Microsoft Windows file functions (_lclose, _lcreat, _llseek, _lopen, _lread, or _lwrite) and an error occurs, the function returns the HFILE_ERROR error code. No additional information is available concerning the cause of the error. Specifically, no MS-DOS error return value is available for these functions.

Additional reference words: 3.10
KBCategory: kbprg
KBSubcategory: KrFileIO
Keywords : kb16bitonly

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Last reviewed: July 23, 1997
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