Read File at > 2GB Problem

[Ian Wood]

Are you reading from the beginning of the file to the part you need,  
or going straight to the "random" position?

Ian

On 17 May 2007, at 19:14, Dave wrote:

> That's what I'm doing, but it's *way* too slow and crashes if you  
> read too much data. I've got a 60+ GB file and need to read at  
> "random" positions in the file. Moving from somewhere near the  
> start to somewhere near the end takes minutes! The ironic thing is  
> that the data I want to read when I get there is quite small!
>
> On 17 May 2007, at 18:49, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> While much slower, as a workaround in the meantime you could read  
>> the file in chunks until you get to the part you're interested in.