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>>Sorry, I of course don't mean sizeof(DWORD) but the maximum value a DWORD
>>can assume minus the bytes of the RIFF header.
>
> Which is about 4GB ... isn't that large enough for you?
>
> Alan Bellingham

Hi,

yes I know this is pretty large :-) I don't have use for such
large files myself but in times where 80 GB harddisk space
seems to be standard I was asking myself whether there is
in principle any limit set by Microsoft itself?

If my estimate is correct 4GB will allow for recording about
6 hours in CD quality and I can't imagine any practial use for
this. At least I assume anyone doing such large recordings
would use a lossless or lossy compression format.

But since I don't know what users will use my program for
I was just considering whether I should take care of files
larger than 4GB or take the risk that my program behaves
undefined?

Would be interesting to know how Microsofts own programs
behave in that case. I think I will try to create a 6 GB file and
come back with the results...

Nick