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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:18:28 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: GNU File Utilities
Message-ID: <20010220201828.E908@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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In-Reply-To: <ypocg0h9xxvd.fsf@cbjones-1.corpeast.baynetworks.com>; from cbjones@nortelnetworks.com on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:55:18AM -0500

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:55:18AM -0500, Christopher Jones wrote:
> 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?

Sure. Contributions are welcome. Read http://www.cygwin.com/contrib.html
which describes how to contribute to Cygwin.

Corinna

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