Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/07/28/19:02:13
Art S. Kagel wrote:
>
> > BTW, I just wrote a little program to print out the maximum value of a
> > 64 bit integer:
> >
> > 18446744073709551615
> Unsigned. Signed that would be:
> 9223372036854775807
Showoff. :) But how can you read a negative number of bytes from a
file? That was the implicit assumption in what I said.
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