FreeTDS Development Group

[Robert Klemme <shortcutter AT googlemail.com>]

2005/12/6, Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>:
> Well... if we use ftell/fseek to handle large files any file larger than
> 2Gb can be a problem... we _did_ not support large file (ftello/fseeko).
> Naturally I just committed a patch :-) It should be in tomorrow
> snapshot. I don't think that windows platform have ftello/fseeko however
> any new unix platform should do.

I know that it's open source and I could look at the sources, but why
is there a need for seek/tell at all?  I mean, this should be a
straight forward read from start to beginning task.  It's also usually
better performance wise....

Kind regards

robert