Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!dahlia!wgstevens
From: wgstevens@dahlia.uwaterloo.ca (Warren Stevens)
Subject: Max filesize in Interactive 386/ix?
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.152742.22390@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: Filesize, Interective
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes)
Organization: University of Waterloo
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1991 15:27:42 GMT
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Hello,

I am trying to uncompress very large tar files, required for the gnu compiler
and TeX.  Whenever i get to about the 2 meg area, whatever program I am
using dies with the error message "File too large".  I know that the
error is not related to the program, because it happens when i use 
either uncompress or cat.  I have tried it on different filesystems,
and that too makes no difference.

I am running Interactive 386/ix.

Does anyone know what i can do to eliminate the 2Mb file size
restriction, or at least make it higher?

Warren Stevens
wgstevens@dahlia.uwaterloo.edu