File size maximums [Archive]

N Fitzpatrick

10-17-2003, 09:09 PM

We have a bnformatted binary file we need to access with some old utilities. The utilities were compiled in the early 1990's. so a very old version. Looks like we have a 2 GB or 4 GB file size limit for files being accessed by this utility.

Has this limit been broken? Which version of Lahey (for DOS) breaks it. (we have 5.60g).

Thanks Nick

tzeis

10-20-2003, 08:48 PM

The file size limit was raised from 4 gigabytes to about 16 exabytes (2**64) in version 5.7b.

N Fitzpatrick

10-20-2003, 10:33 PM

Wow, I don't think I really can grasp a number that large ... the only way I can think about it, is that the jump from 4 GB to 16 EB, is the same magnitude as the jump from 1 byte to 4 GB.

I guess in 30 years or so, we'll be back, complaining that we need 2**128 ... though I don't think there is a word to describe this number of bytes ....

5.7 ... oh, yet another trip to accounting ...

Thanks, Nick