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From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Open large file gives EACCES
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Hi,

On Feb 21, 6:51=A0pm, nob DOT  DOT  DOT  AT xmission DOT com (Scott) wrote:
>
> Using DJGPP (2.03, GCC 3.3.3 dated 16-Feb-2004, LIBC dated 24-Dec-2001) i=
n a
> WinXP command shell.
>
> Trying to fopen a large (8Gb) file in "rb" mode, I get a fail with EACCES=
,
> although perms are OK and no locks exist. =A0Is this expected behavior wi=
th
> large files? =A0I know I'm overstepping the limits of an MSDOS program, b=
ut I
> figured that I would at least be able to read the file serially, since it
> was *created* with a DJGPP program using fopen/fwrite.

I have no experience with large files since I tend to avoid them. In
lieu of a response from CWS (so far), I'll just say that he has
claimed before that 2.04 beta has "better 4 GB file support". So try
that.   ;-)