Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!mcf!shan From: shan@mcf.UUCP (Sharan Kalwani) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: compress program can't handle very large files... Message-ID: <4616@mcf.UUCP> Date: 25 Apr 89 21:18:36 GMT Reply-To: shan@mcf.UUCP (Sharan Kalwani) Organization: Temp Guest Account @ MCF Lines: 16 hi folks! i have compress 4.0 (the one that came with the BSD distribution and i imagine release on the sources newsgroup sometime ago). well when i try compressing a file (over 140 megabyte large) compress says it can't handle it? actually while i was watching it i noticed the .Z file was LARGER than the original :-)....so are there any things i can do to it in order to make it work for very large sizes (read 100 meg and over?). many thanks in advances for suggestions, techniques, etc.... --shan shan%mcf.uucp@mailgw.cc.umich.edu -- #include