At 12:49 PM 3/24/98 -0500, John Korb wrote:
>My preference is for option "a".  I'd rather have large files be an
>exception and display the size with a "K" to indicate thousands of
>sectors or whatever, than receive a string "**********".  While the
>accuracy of the value would suffer, at least the number would be readable
>by a human, would be readable by a program, and would not break existing
>applications (until such time as a >4GB file shows up).

But how would you know that such a file had shown up? The program would not
tell you, and indeed, would report that disc space usage had gone DOWN by
some factor. I think that this is an exception, and should be treated as
such - in whatever manner the programmer desires!

Tony