Getting around the 2 gig limit

[Dave]

Hi,

Will it work with files >4 GB? The files I am processing are 30+ GB!

All the Best
Dave

On 30 May 2007, at 19:56, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> So after all the sturm und drang it turns out the the seek command  
>> still works on larger files?
>
> Well, he said he hadn't actually checked his script yet but that  
> the engine code indicated it should work. Note that it isn't a  
> plain old "seek". It first moves the pointer to the 2-gig mark,  
> then seeks relative to that position (minus the 2 gig chunk.)  
> Apparently you have to seek in amounts less than 2 gigs.
>
>>     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
>
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