Raindog wrote:

To my surprise, the implementation of the STL shipped with VC9 does not support files larger than 4GB. I was pretty surprised and couldn't find anything on the web to the contrary. So I was wondering if boost has any hidden libraries that might assist in solving my problem.

Thanks.

If you are interested in manipulating really big files maybe you will find the hdf5 library handy. http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/ For a short introduction http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/TechNotes/BigDataSmMach.html Cheers Ioannis