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From: sauron@dsoft.UUCP (Ron Stanions)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Compress problem
Keywords: compress error file too large
Message-ID: <475@dsoft.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 90 07:01:27 GMT
References: <493@dhump.lakesys.COM>
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In article <493@dhump.lakesys.COM> mort@dhump.lakesys.COM (Mort d`Hump)
writes:
>I am having trouble using compress to de-compress large .Z files.
>
>The operation terminates with a "File too large" error.
>

I remember having this very problem myself once, a long time ago under a
286 xenix.  Unfortunately, I don't remember exactly how I got around it,
but I can suggest two things.

First, make sure you have enough room to decompress to.  If you're
working on a disk that doesn't have enough free space, then move to
another disk or clean up some space.

Second, what kind of space are you allowed in your user area?  You may
have 60 Meg free space on the drive, but you as a user may have a limit
of 500K.  If you find you don't have enough space, again, clean up your
user area and try again.

(You could try a dirty trick.  copy your file to /tmp/something, chmod
the /tmp file to 777 and then chown it to bin or something so it's no
longer your file. chmod it to 777 so you can remove it when your done).
this way you can remove your original copy and get back that much user space.

lastly, try using "zcat > newfile" instead.  I somehow don't think the problem
is really with compress, but rather with your user allocation, in which
case zcat won't do it either.



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