I've looked around the internet and have been able to find any solutions as to this problem.

Right now, I have a 5Gb file that has thousands of headers in. I have an indexing program that attempts to write a seperate file that contains the seek position for each unique header. The program already has a kludge that allows it to go between the 2Gb-4Gb limit by seeking backwards if the filesize if above 2Gb. This gets me up to 32-bit numbers. But for a 5Gb file I need slightly higher. Suppose for this situation that breaking up the 5Gb file into smaller 2Gb chunks is not an option.

My question is... Is there any way to create a greater than 32bit pointer in Perl to the right place in the file and if there is, will Windows NT/2000 actually be able to call its own API call on a say 35 bit value?

Thanks for the help in advance. Scott

In reply to 4Gb filesize limit by ruffing

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.