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From: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: compress -d
Keywords: file too large
Message-ID: <2661@ke4zv.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 91 18:07:47 GMT
References: <17515@smunews.UUCP>
Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
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In article <17515@smunews.UUCP> chu@smunews.UUCP (C. S. Huang) writes:
>
>Hi,
>	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
>
>	and the file size are 1230573 bytes. I still have enough space in 
>my harddisk. Any one have this kind of problem.

Your ulimit is set too low to allow the *decompressed* file to be written.
Increase your ulimit and all will be well.

Gary