parallel unzip in progress

[Jay Norwood]

On Wednesday, 4 April 2012 at 07:39:56 UTC, Jay Norwood wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 April 2012 at 07:25:25 UTC, dennis luehring

I decided to try the option where the data is stored in the zip 
file uncompressed.  Since the folder is just over 2GB, I ran into 
the stdio File problems with being unable to properly return the 
size of the file.

I see bugs on this posted that go back a few years.  Kind of 
basic problems.

The work-around was to convert all the file operations to use 
std.stream equivalents, and that worked well, but I see i the bug 
reports that even that was only working correctly on windows.  So 
I'm on windows, and ok for me, but it would be too bad to limit 
use to Windows.

Seems like stdio runtime support for File operations above 2GB 
would be a basic expectation for a "system" language these days.