[newbie]Large (Huge?) file support

Andreas Raab Andreas.Raab at gmx.de
Wed May 8 11:07:48 UTC 2002


Mike,

Support for large files will be in the 3.2.2 VM. Right now it ain't
none.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Michael Maloney
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 8:33 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: [newbie]Large (Huge?) file support
> 
> 
> I work with high definition video and routinely make files > 10GB.
> I'd like to do my work in Squeak, but when I opened a 13GB 
> file using 3.2g
> on my NT system, it reported the size as 4GB.
> 
> As best as I can tell this is handled in a primitive, which 
> is beyond my 
> expertise.
> 
> Is there support for files > 4GB? If not, are there any plans 
> to do away
> with the file size limit? Am I stuck with C++?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 




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