Windows 2000 2 GB file limit

[Bill Vermillion]

On Tue, Nov 09 12:08 , Men gasped, women fainted, and small children 
were reduced to tears as Jay R. Ashworth confessed to all:" 

> 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.

And it's a signed 32-bit integer.  I never could understand whey
they did not used unsigned for that area as files with less
than 0 length aren't particularly usefull.  Maybe it's part of
the multi-verse/parallel universe thing :-)

Bill
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