Subj : How to increase size limit
To   : Max Vasilyev
From : Michael Dukelsky
Date : Wed Jul 01 2020 22:29:14

Hello Max,

Wednesday July 01 2020, Max Vasilyev wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 RS>>> I find that my some ECHO file size stop on 2048 MB...
 RS>>> -rw-r--r--  1 rfido  rfido  2147484864 31 мая   02:00
 RS>>> RU.SEX.SIMVOL.sqd
 MD>> If the file is on FAT32, copy it to some better file system.
 MV> It is not a filesystem problem.
 MV> It is INT_MAX (signed dword) limitation - hardcoded thing for the
 MV> fidonet.

Fidonet is not a code or a msgbase specification. So INT_MAX cannot be hardcoded there. It could be present in squish specification or hardcoded in its implementation. Nobody can forbid implementing a msgbase as a database without such a limitation.

Michael

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