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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 09:04:44 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP and the Large File Summit (LFS)
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Hello.

Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> 
> 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.

2^32-2 can't be represented only in the positive part of a signed 32b integer.

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

Not that I know of. But I guess someone could write a VDD for use under
Windows NT/2k/XP to add some kind of support for files > 4GB.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]