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Subject: Re: GNU File Utilities
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From: "Christopher Jones" <cbjones AT nortelnetworks DOT com>
Date: 20 Feb 2001 08:55:18 -0500
In-Reply-To: Corinna Vinschen's message of "Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:06:09 +0100"
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Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:34:42AM +0100, Markus Hammele wrote:
> > Is it possible, that the file utilities can't display file sizes
> > bigger than 2 (4) GB. At least this is what happened here?
> 
> Yes. Cygwin is using 32 bit all around.

The posix C api for Windows defines a number of 64 bit file routines.
If someone wanted, they could change cygwin to use these, right?

Brian
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