Raetus Egli wrote in a message to Stephen Lindholm:

MB> By the way, there is no easy way out of this 2 GB file size
MB> limit on a PC.  Most implementations of Unix have the same
MB> limitation.

SL>NT did it right.

 RE> Note that the new DB2/2 (2.0) will not be limited to the 2GB
 RE> limit. It overcomes the problem the same way the mainframe
 RE> version overcame the 4 GB VSAM limit by allowing partitioned
 RE> tables.  Still not much  need for NT.

Applications have always been free to maintain their databases in groups of
files and escape the file-size limit, but that is not a solution.
 
-- Mike


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