any packages available to support "fake" large files?

[Michal Wallace]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 montanaro at tttech.com wrote:

> I have an application that requires large files, but it has to run on some
> systems that don't have POSIX large file support.  Consequently, I need to
> "fake it" (perhaps with a directory containing multiple small files and some
> meta information).  I need to call this from standalone C apps and Python,
> so a straightforward pure Python implementation won't be sufficient.
> (Though I may prototype it in Python first.)
>
> I poked around Google a bit, but didn't see anything.  Any pointers
> appreciated,

Maybe look for code that handles zip files? They can be
spread out over multiple floppies, if I recall... Same
concept, right?

Cheers,

- Michal   http://www.sabren.net/   sabren at manifestation.com
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