Re: xchat 1.9.4 (devel)

[Richard Fuchs <dfx@gmx.at>]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:29:51 +0000
"Craig Edwards" <brain@brainbox.winbot.co.uk> wrote:

> > - Make DCC support up to 4GB files (previously 2GB).
> 
> Is there any possible way to use __int64 (*grin* just a suggestion -
> you never know what users may want to dcc each other, or how fast the
> internet may be in a few years time)

It doesn't work. The dcc protocol specifies that the receiving end sends
acknowledgement packets back to the sender, and those ack packets
contain the number of bytes received so far, and this number is sent as
32-bit integer (4 bytes). Increasing this to 64 bit would confuse every
irc client out there.

Richard
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