From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200206142153.g5ELrgc23330@speedy.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: DJGPP and the Large File Summit (LFS)
In-Reply-To: <3D0A28A4.3329742C@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> "from Richard Dawe at
 Jun 14, 2002 06:32:20 pm"
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 23:53:42 +0200 (CEST)
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According to Richard Dawe:
> I've just started working on getting Large File Summit (LFS) support in DJGPP.
> Basically this is a way of supporting files which exceed the number of bytes
> representable by a positive signed 32b integer, i.e.: 2GB - 1B. LFS has been
> integrated into the new POSIX standard.

I don't mean to put you off, but why? The file syatem calls only
support file sizes up to 2^32-2.

Or is there a new INT21 call for files bigger than that?


Right,

						MartinS