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Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2001 22:25:04 -0500
From:	Chris Siebenmann <cks>
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| What, if anything, should we do about large file support?

 In my limited experience and experimentation, it suffixes to compile
rc with the right magic option. No actual source code changes seem
necessary.

 The only seeking rc seems to do is in history.c (and that's not to
a variable position); it's otherwise pretty uncaring about most of
the large file issues. The only reason I recompiled rc with large
file support (on Linux) was so that commands could have stdin/stdout
redirected from/to large files.

 I don't know if autoconf et al has a test for large file support. If it
does, it might be worth building rc that way automatically. If not, it's
pretty easy to add the magic #define (actually usually a -D) by hand.

	- cks