maximum number or records

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Simon--er, no...it was Michael Sr.--said:
> 
> 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.

"2 Gig file limit."

> 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.

Wait for 5.1 or 6.0, as I think they're going to break the 2gig limit.
However--you're on Win98SE.  AFAIK, your best filesystem there is still
only vfat32, and that has a 2gig file limit as well--internal to the OS.

Even if 5.1/6.0 breaks the internal fP file size limit, you have to upgrade
to some form of Windows that offers NTFS in order to take advantage of
larger files.

You're currently screwed over by two things at once.  Both need to be
rectified in order for you to get what you want in one lump sum.

Your temporary solution would be to use extents, I've heard, but I thought
that was limited to one extent per filesystem (PFDSK comes into play, I
seem to remember...I'm -really- no expert in this area--I just remember
bits of discussion from about 4-6 months ago).

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