From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT father DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Support for files > 2 GB
Date: 10 Oct 2000 19:20:45 GMT
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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Wojciech Galazka <wojciech DOT galazka AT polkomtel DOT com DOT pl> wrote:

: Martin Stromberg wrote <8rsouj$ecp$1 AT antares DOT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>...
:>Wojciech Galazka (wojciech DOT galazka AT polkomtel DOT com DOT pl) wrote:
:>: Hi,
:>
:>: Is there a way for DJGPP to support files larger than 2 GB?
:>
:>Yes. Get the latest CVS version from delorie.com. It's alpha code;
:>you've been warned.
:>
: I got it but I cannot find the relevant code. How is actually reading from
: such a biig file made? Is there any sort of interface to MSDOS calls ?

Just open the files as usual. If you don't want to get confused with
negative values from lseek() use llseek() instead.

Note that the biggest file size on FAT32 (and *DOZE) is 4Gi - 2
bytes.

Oh! And if you find some bugs, tell us!


Right,

						MartinS