21 Nov
2007
21 Nov
'07
8:28 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
The 2GB limit was due to MICROS~1 using a signed,
rather than unsigned,
long integer. 'Course that did make it possible to have a file with
-2147483648 bytes :-)
That was actually how some "disk expansion" software worked. They put a
file in the filesystem with some negative size. The software functioned
on the principle that, "there's a sucker born every minute".
Peace... Sridhar