Getting around the 2 gig limit

[Richard Gaskin]

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

So after all the sturm und drang it turns out the the seek command still 
works on larger files?

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