[Zope] Enquires

[Charlie Reiman]

There is no 32 bit limit on windows (NT derived) file handling. I've used
the 64 bit API's myself. There is in Python if not compiled for large file
support, as you note. But leave Window's out of the blame game here. The
only reason Windows would prevent you from having huge files is if you were
using FAT instead of NTFS.

And, dammit, don't make me defend Windows again. I feel all slimy.

Charlie.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Andy
> McKay
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 8:57 AM
> To: Reinoud van Leeuwen; zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Enquires
>
>
> > there *IS NO 2GB* problem in Windows!
>
> Wrong, yes there is, after hitting the file size limit several times on
> Win2K, I can attest to that.
>
> Whilst Windows may be able to support large files, older versions
> of Python
> cannot. As was stated before you either have to compile you Python with
> large file support or use Python 2.2 which does have large file support
> enabled by default http://www.python.org/2.2/
>  --
>   Andy McKay
>   @gmweb Consulting
>   http://www.agmweb.ca
>
>
>
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