Problem parsing data in Gigabyte size text files

[Scott Kane]

From: "Mark Wieder" <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>

> The problem here is not so much with the OS limitations, but more one of 
> apps written in C (i.e., the engine) that use the standard file
> functions (fread, fwrite, fseek, etc.) that are limited to 2GB file sizes 
> due to the size of an integer. Switching to the long integer
> versions of these functions overcomes the limit, but is something that has 
> to be done at the engine level.

Indeed.  Even then Explorer itself chokes on text files larger than 1 Gig 
from personal experience.

Scott Kane