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The Thursday 2006-11-30 at 01:39 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> On 2006-11-30 01:27, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > And fat32 cannot copy with files > 2 GB,
> >
> Some day, I would dearly love if someone could explain to my why anyone
> would write any software that uses a signed integer for something that
> can never be negative -- any takers? :-)
I don't think that's the only limitation, a signed int. It has to be
something else.
In dos, negative numbers were used sometimes as the resturn code of
functions (instead of the expected size) to indicate the error code. I
can't certify if that was the case here, though.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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