Re: Moving from C++ to VC++

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"Hendrik Schober" <SpamTrap@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Would you really
>> like to see fseek take an offset value that's 8,192 bits?
>
> How else would I be able to access files
> 2^8192 bytes big?

I guess you would have to become the Divine Creator itself. The number of
electrons required to span the known universe today is smaller than 2^150.
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- Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc
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