From: "Peter Gsellmann" <peter-gsellmann AT eunet DOT at>
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Subject: Re: Really Huge Numbers
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 98 23:54:37 +0100
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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:31:36 -0400, Lord Daedron wrote:

:>Another one my current projects is a DOS install program to be used with my
:>other projects.  I have it completed, but i have a problem:  I wish to store
:>the file sizes of all files packed in my compressed archive, along with the
:>total of all file sizes.  Using an unsigned int ( I read this is same as
:>unsigned long? ) this gives me a maximum of about 4 megs ( any bigger
:>numbers will overflow ).  Is there a bigger integer type or a class for
:>stroing really huge numbers so I could install more than 4 megs?

2^32 == 4 Giga !
I hope you will not fill up my new 4 Gig-Drive with your
program!