Re: negative FileByteCount
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- Subject: [mg83567] Re: negative FileByteCount
- From: sashap <pavlyk at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:30:13 -0500 (EST)
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On Nov 22, 5:48 am, rych <rych... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very interesting replies, thank you very much. I don't want to load
> the whole file into memory, the main, virtual or whatever, but I do
> want to have an access to it. The C runtime fopen() gives me a handle
> to my big file (and to the biggest files on my harddisk, which are now
> a couple of HD films). Then I can read from it with a trivial C code.
> Why can't I do the same from Mathematica?
>
> In[3]:= snum = OpenRead["scandata.xyz"]
> Out[3]= InputStream["scandata.xyz", 29]
> In[4]:= FileByteCount["scandata.xyz"]
> Out[4]= -936210076
> In[5]:= ReadList[snum, Number, 3]
> Out[5]= {}
This is a known limitation in Mathematica. Expect it to be fixed
in future releases.
Oleksandr Pavlyk
Wolfram Research
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- Re: negative FileByteCount
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet@gmail.com>
- Re: negative FileByteCount