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From: sking@nowhere.uucp (Steven King)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Uncompressing large files
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.010821.3964@nowhere.uucp>
Date: 18 Mar 91 01:08:21 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.083650.30@edwards-saftd-2.af.mil> <3030@inews.intel.com> <1991Mar15.141304.3696@virtech.uucp>
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In article <1991Mar15.141304.3696@virtech.uucp> scum@virtech.uucp (Steven C. Monroe) writes:
>bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>
>>In article <1991Mar13.083650.30@edwards-saftd-2.af.mil> 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
>

    Hmmm, isn't "File too large" the message one receives when one attempts
 to create a file larger than ones ulimit...

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