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RE: Cygwin size-limitations
- To: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: Cygwin size-limitations
- From: "Chilleck, Joachim" <J dot Chilleck at hzd dot hessen dot de>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:09:51 +0100
> To Cygwin list,
>
> I'm looking for further informations/documentation about Cygwin
> size-limitations.
> Does exist known problems with big files itself (per example zipped files
> from gzip)?
>
> Thanks (especially to Corinna Vinschen)
>
> "Corinna Vinschen" wrote:
> > The size limit is regarding to the fact that size and positional
> > calculations are based on 32bit ints. You should be able to read
> > such files in sequential order and seek to any position < 2^32.
> > If this is not enough you will have to use Win32-API calls for now.
>
> Hessische Zentrale für Datenverarbeitung
> Tel. 0611-340-299
> Fax 0611-9020-299
> j.chilleck@hzd.hessen.de
>
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