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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Andrey Kiselev wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:13:20AM -0800, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
>> We submitted this patch a few years ago, didn't hear much. What do
>> people think now? This makes file I/O interfaces in libtiff/win32 and
>> libtiff/*nix compatible, which is handy when writing cross platform
>> applications.
>
> I can add tif_win32crt.c to the distribution with the special option in
> nmake.opt file, so user can select what I/O interface to use.
>
> But what a problem with the standard tif_win32.c? Your new
> tif_win32crt.c will be not portable anyway and specific for Windows.

Does the alternative implementation support 4GB files?  Large file 
support is often an issue under Windows.

Bob
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