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- From: gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz (Simon Hosie)
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- Subject: Re: The size of a file
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 06:42:16 +1300
- Organization: Airdmhor
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- > But what if the file size doesn't fit in a long int (in DOS)? It
- > seems that a long int (which ftell() returns) only goes up to 2 meg.
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- Steve Tupy:
- > You mean just over 2 gigs, don't you?
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- Actually 1 byte under 2 gig. You can have negative 2 gig exactly, though.
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