Re: [Lynx-dev] file size limit for download

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Stef Caunter wrote:
>
> > I have a feeling this came up before, but ...
> >
> > Downloading a 3.2GB DVD iso I see
> >
> > Read 1558843 of 2097151 KiB of data, 2767 KiB/sec.
> >
> > Am I seeing a system limit (FreeBSD) on what it thinks can be downloaded as 
> > a file, or do I have to tell lynx something to report the actual size?
>
> It's not implemented (that is, ensuring that 32-bit unsigned long sizes
> are reported as such).  lynx isn't using long-long anywhere, so 4Gb would
> be the highest value that it can report.

...the large-file support in lynx should allow you to _download_ that (or 
larger) DVD.  I haven't studied to see how much work it would be to 
support the reporting aspect.

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