in reply to Re^2: How to open a file more than 2.6 GB?
in thread How to open a file more than 2.6 GB?

It depends upon which platform you are running on.

On win32, you would need to edit the makefile (in the win32 subdirectory) and uncomment the line 

#USE_LARGE_FILES = define

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If you are running on other platforms, you can probably do this as a part of the configure step, but you'll need to look at the readme.XXX where XXX is your platform for the details.

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