Python 1.5.2 and large files (Solaris 7)

Barry A. Warsaw bwarsaw at cnri.reston.va.us
Thu May 27 11:20:34 EDT 1999


>>>>> "SC" == Steve Clift <clift at mail.anacapa.net> writes:

    SC> How do you come up with this sort of stuff at such an hour?

The Timbot has no need of sleep.  Time for the Timbot is just a 32 bit
value, ever incrementing.  Timbot desires a 64 bit upgrade of this
counter the way Walt Disney craved viable human brain transplant
technology.  At least with the Timbot, it's much easier to dump a
snapshot of his running image to a CDROM than it is to keep ol' Walt's 
head in a freezer.

good-to-know-timbot's-subject-to-the-same-laws-of-nature-
as-the-rest-of-us-ly y'rs

-Barry




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