>>>>I just wondered, has anyone actually tried to overflow the 2GB limit on a Memo file ?
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>>>I do that kind of stuff for a living. The limit exists, and all kinds of nasty stuff happens when you go over the limit, including making your data corrupt and unrecoverable.
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>> Why doesn't VFP trap for this kind of thing? Doing bad things like data corruption doesn't sound like the kind of behavior anyone really wants ;-)
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>Hey, I learned to accept 2,000,000,000 bytes to be 2GB and bail in time :))
>But anyway, you have a point here. Here is another of my (failing) guesses :
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>Your data will be written (APPEND) into the PC's cache. It's VFP having control there. Also, VFP won't know about filesizes (explicitly).
>Now the data is flushed and out there nothing knows about VFP-"logic".
>Here you you go.


Yeah, I'm assuming the answer has to do with the operating system handling that part of it, but I'm still curious...