From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Jan 23 11:36:43 2004
Subject: Re: file offsets used by fseek and ftell
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Alois Schloegl <alois dot schloegl at tugraz dot at>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:35:50 -0600

On 23-Jan-2004, Alois Schloegl <alois dot schloegl at tugraz dot at> wrote:

| The origin for introducing the STREAMPOS object was the ability to 
| access files larger than 4GBytes. If the issue becomes a question 
| whether octave should support, (1) access to files larger than 4GB or 
| (2) FTELL returning a numeric value, I second the later.

If you (or someone) can show me a *portable* way to get the file
position as an integer, then we can convert it back.  The motivation
for the change is to be able to support large files *and* allow Octave
to compile with future C++ systems that don't necessarily have
streampos/streamoff as a simple integer.

I'm not interested in converting all the internals of Octave to use C
stdio.

jwe