Handling large files > 4 GB

[Michael]

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Hello,

I am trying to write a program at work for reading/writing files
larger than 4 GB. I know that Windows supports files that big but I
have not been able to get my program to write past the 4 gig boundary.
Some solutions that I have tried:
* standard library: fstream/write
* MS's CreateFile()/WriteFile()
* fopen/fwrite
I found a page http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~luo/linux_lfs.html that
describes large file support for Linux. Is there an equivalent under
Windows?

I would prefer a portable solution, but will settle for anything that
will work on Windows 2000. BTW, I am using Borland C++ Builder 6.0
for my compiler.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Michael

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[Pete C.]

Michael wrote:

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Hello,

I am trying to write a program at work for reading/writing files
larger than 4 GB. I know that Windows supports files that big but I
have not been able to get my program to write past the 4 gig boundary.

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Standard C++ (the topic of this group) does not define any file size limits,
so you need to ask in a group for your platform. In your case,
comp.os.ms-windows.program mer.win32.

- Pete

[Michael]

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Standard C++ (the topic of this group) does not define any file size limits,
so you need to ask in a group for your platform. In your case,
comp.os.ms-windows.program mer.win32.

- Pete

Thank you for your reply. So that means that streampos's size (the
type used by tellg() and seekg()) is defined by the implementation,
not the Standard?

Sorry for being off topic,
Michael

[Pete C.]

Michael wrote:

"Pete C." <x@x.x> wrote in message
news:<q7******* **********@news read1.news.pas. earthlink.net>. ..

Standard C++ (the topic of this group) does not define any file size
limits, so you need to ask in a group for your platform. In your
case, comp.os.ms-windows.program mer.win32.

- Pete

Thank you for your reply. So that means that streampos's size (the
type used by tellg() and seekg()) is defined by the implementation,
not the Standard?

Sorry for being off topic,
Michael

Yes, it's implementation defined. Note that questions about whether some is
or not /is/ on-topic. :)

- Pete