From: Peter Smith <psmith@creo.com>
Subject: Re: Upping the 2Gb limit
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:01:00

Dan

Revision 6.0 of the Tiff spec states the following in section 2 under the
heading "Image File Header":

The term "byte offset" is always used in this document to refer to a
location with respect to the beginning of the TIFF file. The first byte of
the file has an offset of 0.

This seems to me like a round-about way of saying file offsets are
unsigned, capable of referring to a maximum of 4Gb.  I haven't found any
references to signed file offsets, have you?

Peter

At 08:57 AM 9/9/99 -0400, Dan Smith wrote:
>Sorry, I've been asleep. Peter, could you remind/inform me: how does the
>CURRENT TIFF spec allow file sizes >2Gb?
>
>
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