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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: compress -d
Keywords: file too large
Message-ID: <1991Apr01.152256.12896@virtech.uucp>
Date: 1 Apr 91 15:22:56 GMT
References: <17515@smunews.UUCP>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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chu@smunews.UUCP (C. S. Huang) writes:

>	I am trying to decompress a file under interactive unix ver 2.2.1,
>and get the following message.
>	
>	#compress -d r4lib.tar.tar.Z
>	r4lib.tar:File too large

Read the FAQ posting (especially the part about increasing your ULIMIT).
Or you could do the following:

	uncompress < r4lib.tar.tar.Z | tar -xovf -


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