[EMBOSS] Database too lare for dbifasta

[Peter Rice]

George Magklaras wrote:

> Question to the developers:
> 
> Why INT_MAX (signed)? Why not unsigned UINT_MAX (to raise it a bit) or 
> another raised limit? It is a bit of an overhead to have to go through 
> the file split stage.

The index file format was originally defined that way by the Staden 
package, and also used by EMBL/EBI CD-ROM indexing and by utilities at 
the Sanger Centre/Institute.

The dbi* index files have two problems - they cannot store file 
positions larger than 2Gb aqnd they do not allow duplicate primary 
identifiers.

We may remove them in a future release - but for smaller databases many 
users seem to find them useful still.

regards,

Peter