Re: [Lynx-dev] File size limitation problem.

[fd0man]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, David Woolley wrote:
> Most operating systems have a file size limit of 2GB.  That's certainly
> true of the Linux versions that I have used.  It comes from using
> signed integers for the lseek function, etc.

> From everything I've read it seems to be also a limitation on the 
filesystems.  However, I was able to transfer the file correctly with 
ncftp and it worked just fine, as I noted.  Both applications were 
compiled against the same C library and everything else, I can attest to 
that.  While I'm not a programmer, I do like to build my own software.

That having been said, if I knew C programming, I would submit a patch to 
fix this myself, because not being able to support the same things that 
the underlying system can support is annoying, especially if I want to get 
a DVD ISO to burn.

Anyway, I just wanted to let y'all know.  I can get away with using other 
things for now, but I do tend to use lynx quite a bit.  (I hate X, pretty 
much no matter which distribution it is...)

Thanks.

        Later,
        Mike