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From: elston@edwards-saftd-2.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Uncompressing large files
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.083650.30@edwards-saftd-2.af.mil>
Date: 13 Mar 91 16:36:50 GMT
Organization: IFAST Tems - EDWARDS Air Force Base
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I recently received GNU's C compiler in compressed format which weighed in at
a healthy 2,518,528 bytes. I tried to uncompress it (using GNU's compress
utility) and got the error message "File too large".  I have tried looking
at compress to find out if there is something I can do to modify it to work
on large files but I haven't got the background in the algorithm to know what
may safely be changed.

If there are any suggestions, please mail them to me.  I'll summarize if I
get any feedback requesting me to do so.
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