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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Uncompressing large files
Message-ID: <267@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 91 00:44:47 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.083650.30@edwards-saftd-2.af.mil>
Organization: IRS/CI - Technical Solutions Branch
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elston@edwards-saftd-2.af.mil writes:

>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.

	Well, perhaps you should use the "standard" *compress utilities,
the source for which is widely available. I was recently tasked to bundle
and move some 11 MB of files down a packet switch link. The cpio archive
compressed down to 2.7 MB, and uncompressed without a hitch. Assuming the
bundle is in tar or cpio format, consider using zcat, piping the output
into the appropriate routine.

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