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Re: GNU File Utilities
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:55:18AM -0500, Christopher Jones wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:34:42AM +0100, Markus Hammele wrote:
> > > Is it possible, that the file utilities can't display file sizes
> > > bigger than 2 (4) GB. At least this is what happened here?
> >
> > Yes. Cygwin is using 32 bit all around.
>
> The posix C api for Windows defines a number of 64 bit file routines.
> If someone wanted, they could change cygwin to use these, right?
Sure. Contributions are welcome. Read http://www.cygwin.com/contrib.html
which describes how to contribute to Cygwin.
Corinna
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