You'll have to reinstall ActiveState, but I'm not that familiar with ActiveState so I'm not sure what flags should be set. Do you have the latest version? If not, you might just try that and see what it does. There should be a way to turn large file support on...maybe someone on this list who uses ActiveState would know how. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Goodman Kristi - kgoodm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Tanton Gibbs'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Goodman Kristi - kgoodm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Robert Citek'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: RE: Large numbers
> Yes, some of them are several GB, around 100 GB. > > How do I change that? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tanton Gibbs [mailto:thgibbs@;deltafarms.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 3:36 PM > To: Goodman Kristi - kgoodm; 'Robert Citek' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Large numbers > > > You do not have USE_LARGE_FILE support enabled. This could be causing the > problem. However, it will only cause a problem for files larger than 2G. > Are the files giving you problems larger than 2G? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Goodman Kristi - kgoodm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Tanton Gibbs'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Robert Citek'" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 4:24 PM > Subject: RE: Large numbers > > > > Here is the output from perl -V > > > > > > Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: > > Platform: > > osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread > > uname='' > > config_args='undef' > > hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef > > usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define > > usemultiplicity=define > > useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=undef usesocks=undef > > use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef > > Compiler: > > cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -O1 -MD -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE > > -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS > > -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX', > > optimize='-O1 -MD -DNDEBUG', > > cppflags='-DWIN32' > > ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers='' > > intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 > > d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10 > > ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', > > lseeksize=4 > > alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define > > Linker and Libraries: > > ld='', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -release > > -libpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86' > > libpth="C:\Perl\lib\CORE" > > libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib > > comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib > > uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib > odbccp32.lib > > msvcrt.lib > > perllibs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib > > comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib > > uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib > odbccp32.lib > > msvcrt.lib > > libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl56.lib > > Dynamic Linking: > > dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' > > cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -release > > -libpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86' > > > > > > Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): > > Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT > > PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS > > Locally applied patches: > > ActivePerl Build 626 > > Built under MSWin32 > > Compiled at May 2 2001 01:31:15 > > %ENV: > > PERLDB_OPTS="RemotePort=127.0.0.1:2000" > > @INC: > > C:/Perl/lib > > C:/Perl/site/lib > > . > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tanton Gibbs [mailto:thgibbs@;deltafarms.com] > > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:37 PM > > To: Goodman Kristi - kgoodm; 'Robert Citek' > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Large numbers > > > > > > Can you run perl -V and send the results to the list. It may be that you > > didn't compile with USE_LARGE_FILES. Are you using ActiveState perl? > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Goodman Kristi - kgoodm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "'Robert Citek'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:00 PM > > Subject: RE: Large numbers > > > > > > > I am running WIN2000 and perl 5.6.1 > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Robert Citek [mailto:rwcitek@;alum.calberkeley.org] > > > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:02 AM > > > To: Goodman Kristi - kgoodm > > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > Subject: Re: Large numbers > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello Kristi, > > > > > > At 10:22 AM 10/24/2002 -0500, Goodman Kristi - kgoodm wrote: > > > >Does anyone know why Perl has a hard time with large numbers and > > sometimes > > > >turns them into negative numbers? Sorry if I am not being specific > > enough, > > > >but really all I am doing is calculating the number of records in a > file > > > and > > > >if it is a large number of records (lets say over a million) it will > > return > > > >a negative number for some reason. > > > > > > Could you please provide an example? Also on what operating system are > > you > > > using perl? What perl version ('perl -V')? > > > > > > For exampe, this piece of code works just find on Cygwin and Linux: > > > perl -e '$a=100000000000000 ; $a++ ; print $a, "\n" ; > > > > > > You must agree that 1 + 10^14 (~100 Terabytes) is a pretty big number. > I > > > doubt you have a file that has that many records. > > > > > > Regards, > > > - Robert > > > > > > > > > ********************************************************************* > > > > > > The information contained in this communication is > > > confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient > > > named above, and may be legally privileged. > > > If the reader of this message is not the intended > > > recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > > > distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly > > > prohibited. > > > If you have received this communication in error, > > > please re-send this communication to the sender and > > > delete the original message or any copy of it from your > > > computer system. 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