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From: billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: V/AT2.3 Hard Disk File Size Limit?
Message-ID: <7012@celit.fps.com>
Date: 23 Feb 90 20:01:58 GMT
References: <8815@wpi.wpi.edu> <N9#+D&@splut.conmicro.com>
Organization: FPS Computing Inc., San Diego CA
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In article <N9#+D&@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
>As root, say 'patch /unix ulpatch 0x7fff'. This will raise the ulimit to
>32K 512-byte blocks (I think...maybe it's 32K 1K-byte blocks). In any
...
>General question: Is that number signed or unsigned? Can I get away with
>0xffff, or will it cause problems?

I believe I tried this a couple of years ago (memory is fading :-( ).
Anyway, it didn't work.  It's using signed.  I think this was with
2.2 so it may have changed in 2.3 or 2.4.  I haven't tried it more
recently because I really don't care.  The biggest file size I could
make it accept then was just under 16Meg.  Since I only need it to
go up to about 7Meg.  I never really cared to go higher.

--Bill Davidson