Author: Eiko Bleicher
Date: 12:19:14 01/18/04
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In fact, 32 bits give a 4 GB space you can address, but unfortunately there happen to be many errors in implementations around, that have problems with bit no 32, because in some parts they take the integer value as _signed_ instead of _unsigned_, which makes the 32 bit value a 31 bit value. Eiko >I understood from previous posts that the maximum file size for a 32-bit >operating system is 2 GB, and so 6-piece endgame tablebases larger than this >size have had to be split into smaller chunks. However, today I came across a >web page >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/choosing_between_NTFS_FAT_and_FAT32.asp >which claims that the largest file size for FAT32 is 4 GB. So why is the >splitting necessary for files smaller than 4 GB?
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