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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:52:33 +0000
From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com
Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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To: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel AT ns1 DOT bloomberg DOT com>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ifstream (FILENAME, ios::binary). Can't Read!!!
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Art S. Kagel wrote:
> 
> > BTW, I just wrote a little program to print out the maximum value of a
> > 64 bit integer:
> >
> > 18446744073709551615
> Unsigned.  Signed that would be:
> 9223372036854775807

Showoff.  :)  But how can you read a negative number of bytes from a
file?  That was the implicit assumption in what I said.

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