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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Large Files (> 2 GByte)
Keywords: big files
Message-ID: <1991May29.203845.938@kithrup.COM>
Date: 29 May 91 20:38:45 GMT
References: <1991May27.170212.18590@convex.com> <1991May29.130418.26097@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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In article <1991May29.130418.26097@watdragon.waterloo.edu> tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) writes:
>PS: I wonder what proportion of applications can tolerate 
>    (sizeof(int) != sizeof(off_t))?

A fair number of them.  16-bit Intel machines have sizeof(int) <
sizeof(off_t).  Generally.

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