9fans archive / 2006 / 09 / 364 prev nextFrom: geoff@pla... Subject: venti backup example vs. 2GB Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:28:14 -0400 I think that the floating-point exception is from converting the internal floating-point representation of start to an int for printing with %d. Numbers above 2^31 won't fit in a signed int, thus the exception. awk doesn't seem to have any form of vlong, nor %lld; perhaps it should.