Sequential files - file size?

[Volker Butzlaff]

@all,

I've written a little program reading a sequential ASCII/Text file, making some manipulations and writing a second file.

The records will be read using the "while/wend" command and all runs ok if the file size isn't bigger than 2 GB.

Independently from the problem above, which perhaps have other reasons:
Are there generally any file size limitations for PB reading sequential files? (OS: Win XP sp3)

bye,
Volker

[Kev Peel]

The 2GB would be a limit to the record size, not file size. PB/WIN can handle file addressing using 64-bit integers so the total file size is probably limited by NTFS or disk size (whichever is smaller).

[Volker Butzlaff]

@Kev,

thank you for your quick answer!

I've thought that there's no PB limitation, so I've try to analyze the problem a little bit deeper...

bye,
Volker

[Edwin Knoppert]

I think he just told you, you'll need Quad variables

[Chris Holbrook]

...or you could extract code to make a compileable example showing what is going wrong.

[Edwin Knoppert]

...or you could extract code to make a compileable example showing what is going wrong.

Michael.. is that you?

[Chris Holbrook]

Only in the sense of stating the bloomin' obvious...

[Bob Zale]

Are you using an older operating system? They were limited to 2G file size.

Bob Zale
PowerBASIC Inc.

[Michael Mattias]

Compiler model/version not given. Operating system not specified. Code not shown.

Problem not solved.

Coincidence?

[José Roca]

The operating system has been specified. I can read "(OS: Win XP sp3)".

[John Petty]

Some computers that came with XP preinstalled, particularly laptops, were still using FAT32 disk systems with the 2GB limit. Also if the computer XP OS is an upgrade from 98, ME etc then it will not have automatically upgraded the disk system to NTFS. You can't depend on knowing the OS you need to check the disk properties.

[Michael Mattias]

I read in this message that creating a file >2GB to process is not the problem.

I read this as the code (not shown) will not get all lines of said input file. Or maybe it won't write all lines of the output.

[Volker Butzlaff]

First, many thanks for your input.

Meanwhile I've build my own test file (400,000,000 records in a 10.4 GB file) on a NTFS partition of Win XP sp3 (Home Edition, german) and the program (build with PB v9.0) works without error.

Because the original problem doesn't occur on my computer, but on a PC of a remote user I'm still waiting for additional information concerning his file and his computer environment. The FAT limitations may be the key...

(...a few hours later: ok, now it is confirmed - it was a FAT problem!)

bye,
Volker