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From: gill@boris.mscs.mu.edu (Max Headroom)
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Subject: Re: Max filesize in Interactive 386/ix?
Keywords: Filesize, Interective
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Date: 21 Mar 91 16:06:24 GMT
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wgstevens@dahlia.uwaterloo.ca (Warren Stevens) encounter a problem that
has been solved before:

>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.
>

Try zcat file.tar.Z >temp.tar and then take it from there.  This should
work (read: It has worked for me).  If you still get an error, then
maybe your disk is filling up.  Ulimit strikes here?
    The zcat trick should work for files of arbitary size.  And I saw it
used to answer a similar question here a few weeks ago.

cheers
-dicky gill (Violator)
-gill@boris.mscs.mu.edu