Jim Henderson wrote:
> To someone with a little background in C 

There's the problem right there.  As one professor I knew put it, "There 
are two kinds of languages. The ones that support unbounded arithmetic 
types, and the ones that don't know they need to support unbounded 
arithmetic types."

I can't tell you how many tools I went through looking for one that 
would handle a file >4G for restartable downloads. I finally had to 
install bittorrent at both ends just to move the file across the 
network.  In spite of the fact that FTP uses ASCII representations for 
all numbers, and hence has no inherent limitation in the protocol.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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