File too large error message

[Bob Stockler]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:01:55AM -0600, Bill D Doyle wrote:
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| 
| If I set the filesize to unlimited, will fP choke when the
| filesize reaches 2GB?
| I would like to avoid another problem before it happens.

It's claimed that filePro can support 1 billion records
per file and that the key record length can be up to
32,700 bytes plus a 20-byte header, which implies that
filePro can support a pretty large file.

If that's not large enough for you, you can always break
the key segment into key+data records.  It's not too big
a task to do this by overlaying the file with an alien
file, then in an output process in it sequentially read
each record in the file and use MID() to break thes into
two parts, and WRITE() to write the parts to a "new.key"
and a "data" file.

Bob

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