I think you have found something here PodMaster. Here is the output of perl -V:userlargefiles: 

>perl -V:uselargefiles
uselargefiles='undef';

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After a little more investigation it seems that any file over exactly 2gb (2,147,483,648 bytes) is giving the negative results. I have a file that is 2,004,792,320 bytes that is being reported properly. I guess I will have to figure out how to tell perl to use large files, then try again.

Thanks for all the help.

UPDATE: I am an idiot and here's why: 107391. I'll just go away now *hangs head in shame*.
UPDATE 2: I did some searching and since I can't ./configure on a win32 system, I'm not sure how I can add 'uselargefiles'. Does anyone know for sure if this can't be done on a win32 system? Thanks.

djw

In reply to Re: Re: File::stat's size method returns negative values by djw
in thread File::stat's size method returns negative values by djw

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