Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:40:29 01/18/04
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On January 18, 2004 at 14:51:46, Mike Hood wrote: >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? Because the official standard for fseek() is +/- 2gigabytes. Which means it is impossible to address a 4 gigabyte file using normal fseek().
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