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Re: [MiNT] Another tale from Remi... ;-)

To: mint@fishpool.com
Subject: Re: [MiNT] Another tale from Remi... ;-)
From: Frank Naumann <fnaumann@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 00:00:52 +0100
In-reply-to: <200003191841.a24722@su.maus.de>
Sender: owner-mint@fishpool.com

Hello!

> RV>I read [...] that Minix is limited to 2 Gb.
> AFAIK this limit means the size of a single file, not a partition.

No. MinixFS is limited to 2 GB per partition.

> And files larger than 2GB are always problematic on the Atari because the API
> limits the file size to 4GB and programers often use signed values there so
> that file sizes gretaer than 2GB might get interpreted as an error.

The maximum file size is 2 GB, not 4 GB. This is defined in the kernel API
as Fseek() return a signed long.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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