On Monday 22 March 2004 02:36 pm, JM wrote: > > The tools, of course, need to support handling of large files. They need > > to be compiled using a C library that supports opening files with > > O_LARGEFILE. > > ok.. so i need to recompile all applications.. hmm.. do i have to recompile > emacs, vi, and other file manipulating tools that comes with linux...?
so, what common distributions (with versions) already support huge files? does Mandrake 10? if not, do we have to go with a source based distribution like Gentoo or similar? tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" You do not have mail. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
