[ILUG] Gzip problem

[John McCormac]

Liam Bedford wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 05:38:29PM +0000, John McCormac came forth with:
> > Is there some upper limit in Gzip that prevents it from uncompressing
> > files bigger than 2G ? I've been trying to uncompress (gzip -d
> > filename>outfile) a large file for the last day or two and it seems to
> > barf when it gets to the 2G mark. As far as I know the -d switch
> > decompresses to stdout and the problem seems to be there.
> >
> you do know you can't create a file bigger than 2Gb on 2.2?
> you need 2.4 for that (or a 64bit arch)

Damn. I should have RTFMed. I know this is heresy but I may try W98. :-)
It looks like I'll be downloading again tonight. Alternatively since it
is a text file, I can try and pipe it to grep and only save the lines
beginning with individual letters rather than the whole file. This may
take longer than d/ling or changing to RH enterprise but it is worth a
shot of course it probably will not work unless gzip is decompressing on
the fly and the output is completely pipable.

Regards...jmcc
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