From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-10-31T05:58:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Large File sizes

In article <20021030082754.A44108@freeze.org>,
Jim Freeze  <jim@freeze.org> wrote:
>Hi:
>
>Does ruby support files greater than 4GB?
>
>We are using SunOS with 64bit processors.
>The Perl we are using is compiled for 32bit
>and is limited to 4GB files. I was wondering
>if Ruby had similar limiations.
>
>

I would tend to think it has more to do with how you compile Perl/Ruby.  
I'm guessing that if you can get gcc to create a 64 bit Perl/Ruby binary 
that you wouldn't have that limitation.

Oh, and I think it may also have something to do with your filesystem.  

Phil