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Re: Large File Support
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Bob Friesenhahn |
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Re: Large File Support |
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Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:15:05 -0600 (CST) |
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Guido Draheim wrote:
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> Please have a look at my LFS propaganda site at
> http://ac-archive.sf.net/largefile
> and feel free to mail me anything that's not clear
> after reading it up. My zziplib project has even
> gone to the next step of being a dualmode library.
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> Windows support is not included however since its
> compiler headers do not support the posix LFS magic,
> so unix libs get compiled in pre-'95 mode always.
> It might be interesting to develop a drop-in
> header file for projects that would care to do so.
That may be difficult to accomplish. I am not aware that Windows
stdio and other high-level "Windows" I/O interfaces support large
files since the APIs are 32 bit. You need to use _read, _write,
_lseeki64, & _telli64 to support large files under Windows.
Bob
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