Official size limits for files

[mark smit]

Hello all,

I was just wondering what the official size limit for files was
in PowerBasic. I was just trying some things out and I was able to
create a file 5,000,000,000 bytes long with PB but this is larger
than a LONG(4,294,967,296) so... does this mean that powerbasic
uses QUADS for file pointer related functions? or was this just
a error that slipped by?

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Cheers

[Timm Motl]

Mark...

Could you post a snippet of code that shows what PB commands you used to create the large file?

Without that, it's sort of difficult for anyone to answer your question.

Timm

[mark smit]

Hello...


Here's the code

#compile exe

function pbmain as long
    dim var as long

    open"d:\mark.txt" for binary as #1
    put #1,5000000000,var
    close #1
end function

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Cheers

[Fred Oxenby]

from 'pb/dll 6.0 whats new'
* all operations which reference a position in a file (such as seek, get, lof, etc.) may now do so in the range of a 64-bit integer.
files are no longer limited to 2 gigabytes in size.

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