Getting around the 2 gig limit

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Hey, Jacque, I thought it was Greek! (smile)

Joe Wilkins

On May 29, 2007, at 9:22 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> I actually got the following in my mailbox last week but was out of  
> town for the weekend and I'm just catching up now. This is from  
> Mark Waddingham:
>
>> I haven't had a chance to check this but something like the
> > following might work (as a workaround):
>> on readFrom64 tFile, tFilePosition, tCount, @rData
>>     local tResult
>>     if tFilePosition <= 2147483647 then
>>         read from file tFile at tFilePosition for tCount
>>         put the result into tResult
>>         put it into rData
>>     else
>>         seek to 2147483647 in file tFile
>>         seek rel tFilePosition - 2147483647 in file tFile
>>         read from file tFile for tCount
>>         put the result into tResult
>>         put it into rData
>>     end if
>>     return tResult
>> end readFrom64
>> (mutatis mutandem for writeTo64)
>
> You gotta love a programmer who gives instructions in Latin. :)
>
> Dave, heads up. You might want to try this.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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