Never thought I'd run into this, but I've got a 2.9GB fixed-length text
file that contains some data I want to load into MapInfo. Now, I know
that's too big, so I thought I could simply write a little script in Visual
Basic and read half the records into one file and the other half into a
second file, making two files that are smaller than the limit.

However, MapBasic and Visual Basic can't address positions in a file beyond
2GB. The signed long integer (which is what these systems use to address
locations in a file) just doesn't stretch that far.

Anyone know what I can do to break this file up into smaller chunks?

- Bill Thoen

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