09 Jan 95, Stephen Lindholm writes to Mike Bilow:

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

 > NT did it right.

NT may have included a file system driver that gets around the 2GB file size
limit, but that's only part of the problem.  The 2 GB limitation pervades
the programming environments (C and C++) that most programmers use, so
those limits still exist under NT even though the operating system can
support larger files.

For what it's worth, it IS possible to get around the 2GB file limitation
in ISO standard C, but it's a pain in the neck.  fseek() and ftell() are
less useful than they were before.

- Jon

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