Re: SCSH status and future

 > I had already removed features to work around the lack of support of
 > large files (64 bit C off_t type) in scsh. These features are now back
 > in with the switch to guile.

    Try the attached patch and test program.  It works for me on a
system with 64 bit off_t.  It's not terribly tested.

    At a minimum, it should be validated on:
* Big endian machines
* Machines with 32 bit off_t (should work, but not tested).

    and I don't know exactly what linux does for 32 bit machines
talking to large file support;  I assume that's #define
LARGEFILE_SUPPORT or some such, and you get a 64 bit off_t.

    I'm not testing this further, as I've had two computers die on me
in the last 4 hours, and I'm a little fed up with planet earth.

    Caveats and known areas of improvement:
* There's some scheme code that should be checking for bounds errors
and isn't (marked XXX).  This should be addressed.
* I figure out the size of off_t by calling out to C for every routine
that needs to know.  That's strikes me as a little goofy, and should
probably be detected at autoconf time and smashed into configure.scm
or some such.
* I didn't do anything like an exaustive search for off_t users and
fix them all up;  this should give you the basic idea of what to do.

    Hopefully this gives you something to work with.