FreeArc is becoming more and more interesting...

[Nania Francesco]

For me Free - Arc can be improved anchors a lot ! But later also needs to make a standard in comparison with RAR and ZIP!

[Bulat Ziganshin]

i've compiled a version that should be able to use more than 2 gb of memory but can't test it can anyone help me? you need >=3 gb of RAM and OS capable to allocate 3-4 gbs to 32-bit process (64-bit vista should be ok)

[IsName]

OS capable to allocate 3-4 gbs to 32-bit process (64-bit vista should be ok)

well,are 32-bit programs run in 64-bit mode? No they arent. On 32-bit processor a process has 4gb memory, but 2gb is consumed by windows (afaik,except server version, which has a boot option /3gb to allow processes to use 3gb).i think, the same goes for 64-bit processors.And do you have info about linux? system functions there are called using interrupts,not calls to addresses above 8000 0000h.

[Intrinsic]

I think you've got your terminology mixed up a bit, or something like that. With 32-bit addressing modes you can access up to 4Gbs of memory at the hardware level, but some versions of windows only allow you to use around 1.5/2 gigs at max. You are right that on some versions you can use the /3gb switch to allow windows to use more than 3gb, although potentially with some stability issues. But on our servers at work nothing has really gone wrong using this switch where needed. No clue how vista handles it on 32 or 64 bit cpu's as i refused to touch that junk.

[IsName]

I agree, I know very little about it. I wanted to say the same. - that to use more than 2 gb memory you must either use /3gb switch to get 3 gb, or linux to get even more, but there's no way for 32-bit program to use more than 4 gb.

[Bulat Ziganshin]

please read carefully - it provides access to 4gb, not more