> From: Tony Furnivall <[log in to unmask]>

> 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!
>
By a marker of some sort in the space before, Tony.  It could be a "K"
or a "C", depending on whether the number should be multiplied by 100
or a 1000 (Jeff choose one, not both).  Or it could be a asterik.  Thus,
LISTF,2 would be readable and there would be no effect until there were
Large files on that particular system.

Nick Demos  [log in to unmask]

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