RE: dbexport limit

>I concur - it is an Informix limit. I think it's a POSIX/API limit. The problem is their is no "standard" way to deal with >2Gb paritions/files on 32bit platforms as the file pointer can't be recorded as a single C int. Informix would have to implement each OS's method of dealing with large files, making portability and cross-platform maint just that much harder. The real solution is a 64bit platform & OS, not that they won't eventually find some workable solution on 32bit platforms. Just thought i'd throw in my bit. >I don't agree with you. It IS an Informix limit, not a UNIX limit. >Hence with most versions of IDS the 2GByte limit is present even if >files 2GBytes are permitted by the OS. >>dbexport has a built in limit of 2GB for each file it creates. For >>each table, dbexport creates a .unl file. This limit isn't so much an >>Informix limitation but a unix limitation ... Systems and Network Administrator Morrison Industries 1825 Monroe Ave NW. Grand Rapids, MI. 49505