maximum number or records

[Michael Sr.]

Hello all,

Many years ago I was here.  Most of the information you discuss is way 
over my head, but right now I'm stuck on something and I know one of ya 
has the solution to my dilemma.

I am using 5.0.14D9 on WIN98 SE.

I have a text file.  Each record is 23 characters long.
There are 120,526,770 records and I can not open the
file with fp.  " No records available " I have it
broke into 2 files 60,263,385 records that I can
read just fine.

I thought that since it was a text file fp had an issue
with that.  I open a fp file and went to expand it and
it said max records was 49,933,627 at a rl of 23
and this is on a 40 gig HD with 37 gig free. I have pfdsk
and pfdata pointed to the right drive.  C drive has 7 gig free.


I went back and shortened the file to 19 and got a offer
of 55,055,024.  I tried 10 and it was 71,571,532.

I worked it out and it seems 2,147,147,936 to 960 seems to
be the end of track, so to speak.

My 120,526,770 file is 2,772,115,710, just a tad over what
it seems to like.

50 million is way short of 1 billion by a mile or so and I
sure would like to work with the full file for awhile.  I
looked around the manual and could not fine anything about
setting a max number or anything.  I really only ran into
one time I messed with pftoksize and it had nothing to do
with a large file like this.

Oh, I have been using Qbasic to move the files around and
want fp for indexing and moving as well.

Any help would be immensely appreciated.
Many thanks in advance.


Mike McAvoy
Salem Ohio
Started with Pro File III plus
on a TRS80 Model III with 3 floppys.

Current is 733 chip, a lot of ram
one 15 gig and two 40's HD's