OpenEuphoria

Re: File size limit

• Posted by Kat <KAT12 at ?oosahs.ne?> Jun 11, 2008
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Archarios wrote:
> 
> Taken from latest Euphoria311.chm - "Currently, files up to 2 Gb in size can
> be handled. Beyond that, some file operations may not work correctly. This
> limit
> will likely be increased in the future."
> I have read in the forums the max file size is 4Gb and most talk about using
> seek().
> What is the max file size limit for simply read/writing a file, no seek() or
> where() etc. (I'm only including win32lib for sleep)?
> Also I'm trying to create a file compare function, any tips?

You can't seek over 2gbytes, but you can getc() and gets() to any length. So i
made a procedure to getc() the number of bytes i wanted to seek(), and then there
i was.

I have asked for larger file numbers too, but i don't think we will get them in
Eu v4. Even if we did, we could not do basic full precision integer math on the
numbers over 4gigabytes (there are such libs in the archives tho).

Kat