Maximum Executable Size

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Does anyone know what the maximum executable size is, and especially why it
is? I have heard its 4 gig, but I can't find any reference that documents
this.

-- Larry Maturo
lmaturo at imceda dot com
 
It really doesn't matter. Have you ever even seen a program executable that
is even a quarter of that size, other than a self extracting zip file. I
never have. Or are you really asking something else?

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
He's probably referencing the limitation of file sizes on FAT32 partitions,
as opposed to NTFS.
 
Actually, I AM asking about a self-extracting file, though not a zip one,
but one I create. I have need of one that is larger than 4 gig.

-- Larry Maturo
 
You cannot create a file larger than (2^32)-1 bytes (this is one byte
less than 4 GB) on a FAT32 partition.

Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314463

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Hope this helps.

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news-server.austin.rr.com said:
Does anyone know what the maximum executable size is, and especially why it
is? I have heard its 4 gig, but I can't find any reference that documents
this.
Click to expand...

On a FAT32 partition you cannot have a file larger than 4GB (minus one
byte or something like that). On an NTFS partition, you can go far,
far beyond that. According to
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp,
the maximum file size allowed by current NTFS implementations is
17,592,185,978,880 bytes.
 
I asked this before in this group, and never got an answer, so here I go
again. Does anyone know what the maximum executable size is, and especially
why it is? I have heard its 4 gig, but I can't find any reference that
documents this. Also, if this is the wrong group to be asking this in,
please let me know what the correct group is.

Thank you for any help.

-- Larry Maturo
lmaturo at imceda dot com
 
Larry

You cannot create a file larger than (2^32)-1 bytes (this is one byte
less than 4 GB) on a FAT32 partition.

Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314463

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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