Re: 2147gb limit...

["Rick G." <rgenie@gmx.de>]

>I don't know how to increase the file size limits, but i do know that a few
>programs use huge files(3d studio max for some incredible renders)
>we had a 14 gig file for one of our scenes(unfortunately, max tried to load
>it all into ram and crashed the computer)

Man, thats almost as bad as waiting 3 days to download a massive file via a
56k modem, then at 99% your computer crashes and the data is lost ;-)

It depends on what you're doing, maybe consider saving chunks of your
ultimate file seperately ... then you could use a command prompt execution
to append the files together ... such as dos' "bind":

copy /b file1.wav + file2.wav output.wav

I find this useful for some other purposes, like joining MPGs/AVIs instead
of using a third party joining tool etc. Works well with WAVs too. Maybe
this *could* work in your problem. As far as I'm aware there is no limit on
the output of this command. Like everyone else, I fail to see what kind of
output would require 2 gigs of storage space :-)  In that kind of situation
I'd seriously consider another method, but its your project so I'm sure you
know what you're doing and we can all watch glazed at the insane file
requirements of your application, lol.

Rick


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