On 5/23/07, Yongwei Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 23/05/07, John Beckett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> panshizhu wrote:
> > As far as I know, Windows does not support files larger than
> > 4GB. So its okay to use unsigned 32-bit for filesize in
> > windows.
>
> It's not as bad as that! Even FAT32 supports files much larger
> than 4GB.
Not true. FAT32 supports files up to 4 GB. Check
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463
NTFS does support big files. I can copy big movie files to a USB hard
disk only when it is formatted in NTFS.
Who really want to edit TEXT files as large as that? I cannot think of
scenarios other than log files. Maybe Vim does not fit in this role.
Best regards,
Yongwei
--
Wu Yongwei
URL: http://wyw.dcweb.cn/
Someone recently was emailing the list about looking at a small
section of DNA with vim as text and it was a number of gigs. I think
he ended up using other unix tools (sed and grep I think), but
nontheless, text files can be big too ;-)
-fREW
