OpenEuphoria

Re: File size limit

• Posted by Kat <KAT12 at coosahs.n??> Jun 12, 2008
• 735 views

Archarios wrote:
> 
> 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!

You need math for append?
When i do
writefile = open(filename,"a")
i do not use any math, so i hope precision isn't a problem here?

Kat