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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: file size limit?
Date: 17 Jan 2005 18:52:48 GMT
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On 2005-01-13, Philipp Luttenberger <hansolo@sbox.tugraz> wrote:
: Am Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:17:42 GMT schrieb Jeffrey Altman:
:
:> Yes. There is a 2GB file limit because all of the functions in
:> C-Kermit use 32-bit signed integers. No one has taken the time
:> to fix this.
:
: Are there any plans, to fix this? Nowadays 2GB file size aren't exotic
: anymore...
:
This has been on our list for a long time. It's not easy. It WOULD be
easy if sizeof(long) simply became 8, and the APIs into the file system
used long for the file length. But that is not the case, except perhaps
on a couple platforms, such as Tru64 (maybe). No, it turns out that the
industry has taken a different path: each OS maker has adopted a
*different* API for "long" files. Therefore converting a portable program
like Kermit (that can be built on hundreds of different OS's and versions)
to support long files on many different platforms is going to be
horrendous task. Why, you ask?
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckcplm.html#x3
Volunteers are always welcome. Back in the old days
there used to be a lot of them.
: Or do you know any other software which is able to handle sftp,
: logging to a file and everything started from a script?
:
I suspect the path of least resistance is to add long file support to
Kermit, but who has time? Certainly not me, at least not unless somebody
funds the project.
- Frank