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Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? (Users)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 01.07.2009, 22:27

> I think it's not limitation of filesystem but DOS and programs which works
> with files (in case of mplayer the libc functions for seeking and reading -
> what data types it use). There's a patch for windows 98 that allows work
> with 4GB files in standard way. I tried it only on FAT32 partition not on
> FAT16 and it works well. So I think it shouldn't be impossible under DOS
> too (AFAIK DJGPP use 32bit signed pointer for files so it would be needed
> to extend it to 64bit and also probably FreeDOS would need some patch).

According to CWS, DJGPP 2.04 beta has improved FAT32 / 4 GB file support, but I don't know exactly what that means.

Complete thread:

• Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - Zyzzle, 30.06.2009, 23:27 (Users)
  • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - RayeR, 01.07.2009, 02:28
    • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - Zyzzle, 01.07.2009, 04:07
    • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - ecm, 01.07.2009, 10:56
      • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - Laaca, 01.07.2009, 14:41
        • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - RayeR, 01.07.2009, 18:40
          • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - Khusraw, 01.07.2009, 19:50
            • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - RayeR, 02.07.2009, 12:46
    • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - Rugxulo, 01.07.2009, 22:27
  • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - Rugxulo, 01.07.2009, 22:26
    • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - Zyzzle, 02.07.2009, 04:44
      • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - Khusraw, 02.07.2009, 07:55
    • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - Rugxulo, 05.07.2009, 21:34
      • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - ecm, 06.07.2009, 12:15
        • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - Rugxulo, 08.07.2009, 07:15
          • Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? - ecm, 08.07.2009, 12:43
      • Retrieving files with invalid names - ecm, 13.08.2009, 12:10
  • Accessing and/or creating files > 4 GiB in DOS? - DOS386, 21.10.2009, 01:20