OpenEuphoria

Re: File size limit

• Posted by Archarios <archarios at verizon.n?t> Jun 13, 2008
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Note: I am fairly new to this myself so dont quote me on this.(quotes here are
partial)!!!
I notice that there is a bit of confusion (including me of course) about max
file size and I remembered something, and this is what I found.
"NTFS: File size limited only by size of volume.
FAT: Maximum file size is 2 GB.
FAT32: Maximum file size is 4 GB."
From: 
 "ms-its:C:\WINDOWS\Help\misc.chm::/choosing_between_NTFS_FAT_and_FAT32.htm"
Each file system can only support files of certain sizes.
usually DOS(now DR-DOS) uses FAT(common) or FAT32.
Reading from euphoria311.chm(which may be different from docs included with
euphoria) it states that there is a file size limit of 2Gbs, beyond this there
may be corruption to the file.  Also, there are restrictions on variables and
constants, such as Integers are only capable of (2^53) - 1(from my understanding
from the forums) "approximately -1e300 (minus one times 10 to the power 300) to
+1e300 with 15 decimal digits of accuracy" from euphoria311.chm, which means that
the storing of a byte position within a file beyond the above limits may cause
problems with the running of a program or even data corrupion.
Note: I am fairly new to this myself so dont quote me on this.(quotes here are
partial)!!!

I was only curious lol