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Topic: Text file

Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Text file
Date Posted: 06 April 2005 at 2:38pm

How big can a text file be on a computer?

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 06 April 2005 at 3:19pm

In theory 2⁴⁴ bytes minus 64 KB. (16 terabytes)

EDIT: That's assuming your using NTFS:

FAT32 & FAT16: 4 GB minus 1 byte