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Duck <duck@roaming.ath.cx> writes:
> 3. An I/O library compatible with 'io' but using the OS's own low-level 
> routines, not FILE *. (Inability to work with files > 2GB is a great 
> annoyance when using Lua on Linux or Windows. Point it at such a file and 
> it's lost -- seems a rather depressing singularity to me.)

Er, shouldn't the C library be able to handle large files using FILE?

-Miles

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