Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:59:43 12/12/02
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On December 12, 2002 at 17:26:22, Les Fernandez wrote: >I just hoped over to Bobs ftp site and noticed some of the file naming >conventions are differnent then they use to be. (For example krnkbn.2.nbw.emd) > >What is the significance of this? > >Thanks, > >Les The files are > 2.0 gigabytes, and would be impossible to address using a traditional signed int (32 bit) file offset. Eugene chose to break the file up into chunks of < 2.0 gigs each, rather than limiting users to either 64 bit architectures, or C libraries with 64 bit file offset pointers (which requires O/S support).
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