OpenEuphoria

Re: File size limit

• Posted by Archarios <archarios at veri?o?.net> Jun 12, 2008
• 740 views

Kat wrote:
> 
> 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
What about opening a file for append?
Thanks for the help!