Re: accessing parts of large files with File.seek()

2007-08-08 Thread mhearne808[insert-at-sign-here]gmail[insert-dot-here]com
On Aug 8, 7:37 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 8, 11:46 am, "mhearne808[insert-at-sign-here]gmail[insert-dot- > > > > here]com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having a problem with the File object's seek() method. > > Specifically, I cannot use it to seek to a locati

Re: accessing parts of large files with File.seek()

2007-08-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Aug 8, 11:46 am, "mhearne808[insert-at-sign-here]gmail[insert-dot- here]com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a problem with the File object's seek() method. > Specifically, I cannot use it to seek to a location in a binary file > that is greater than 2^31 (2147483648). This seems unnece

accessing parts of large files with File.seek()

2007-08-08 Thread mhearne808[insert-at-sign-here]gmail[insert-dot-here]com
I'm having a problem with the File object's seek() method. Specifically, I cannot use it to seek to a location in a binary file that is greater than 2^31 (2147483648). This seems unnecessarily limiting, as it is common these days to have files larger than 2 GB. Is there some LargeFile object out