Windows 2000 2 GB file limit

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:24:28AM -0500, Don Coleman wrote:
> > I have seen this 2 gig limit to be increased on the 6.0 features list. 
> > So it will be addressed in that release.
> >
> > Nancy
> 
> Are you saying this is an fP limitation and not a MS limitation?  I 
> assumed it to be another MS liability.

To *re*clarify Ken: it's a limitation of the Unix (or Windows) file
access libraries with which filePro is linked in order to run: these
use a long (32-bit) integer as a file position pointer; hence the
limit.

Cheers,
-- jra
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