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Subject: Re: Files > 4MB
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Date: 12 Nov 90 16:18:36 GMT
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In article <CEDMAN.90Nov10200403@lynx.ps.uci.edu> cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:

>Now this would be really funny. All versions of AIX I had the lack of
>pleasure of having to use so far had quite the opposite problem:
>
>        No files larger that 4 MBytes

This is not a file system problem.  It is a problem with ulimit.  Either the
default limit for file size is 4M or somewhere in one of the AIX 3.1 
startup files there is a `ulimit' command setting it.

Either change this line to some higher limit, or add a line to do it.

Chet
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Chet Ramey				``I die, Horatio''
Network Services Group, Case Western Reserve University
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