Brad Nicholes wrote on 12/17/2003, 9:01 AM:
>     Win32 and NetWare seem to be the only platforms that support large 
> files.

Recent versions of the major Unix variants have
large file support, too.

> Has anybody on the Win32 platform actually tried to download a 
> file larger than 4gig?

You only need to test a file larger than 2gig.
This is because file offset is a signed integer,
so the maximum file offset is 2^31 = 2gig on
systems without large file support.

Wan-Teh

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