osargs functions and 32 bit values

[Tony van der Hoff]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, at 19:47:14, David J. Ruck <druck at freeuk.com> wrote
on the subject "osargs functions and 32 bit values":

>
>With the lack of progress at RISC OS Ltd its more likely that a 64bit
>capable file system will be ported to RISC OS (possibly one of those
>being developed for Linux), and will provide a completely new API to deal
>with the 64bit quantities. The legacy FileSwitch API will be supported, but
>with file sizes limited to 2G - should be 4G but obviously there is a large
>amount of code using signed values which would break.
>

It thus looks like the best thing here is to put it on the todo-maybe
list, and await developments. I don't really want to clag up the name
space with extra functions which will probably never get called.

What is happening at ROSL? have they given up?
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