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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stan!imp
  3. From: imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh)
  4. Subject: Re: A few UNIX questions
  5. Message-ID: <BtrwDs.32r@solbourne.com>
  6. Organization: Solbourne, User Interface Group
  7. References: <1992Aug26.081414.6932@sniap.mchp.sni.de> <1992Aug27.162220.16130@krfiny.uucp> <1992Aug28.232720.5343@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com>
  8. Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 01:34:40 GMT
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  11. In article <1992Aug28.232720.5343@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com>
  12. lezz@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Lezz Giles) writes: 
  13. >But what happens if the file is more than 0x0FFF FFFF bytes long?
  14.                                              7fff ffff
  15. >Any unsigned 32-bit number larger than this cannot be represented
  16. >as a signed 32-bit number
  17.  
  18. Close.  The sign bit only steals one of your bits, not 4 of them.
  19.  
  20. Warner
  21. -- 
  22. Warner Losh        imp@Solbourne.COM
  23. I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety.
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