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Re: gunzip error file too large on file system with largefiles enabled

 
Ralph Haefner
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‎01-29-2004 03:02 AM

‎01-29-2004 03:02 AM

Re: gunzip error file too large on file system with largefiles enabled

One other possibility related to this problem. On a Solaris box once I had a file that was zipped with GNU gzip, but the user was trying to unzip it on a machine with only the built in Solaris version of gzip available. Didn't work. Normally it was fine, but on a file over 2GB it failed. I had to install the GNU version and have the user run that instead.

So in this case, maybe trying GNU gzip would have worked as well.
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Chris Vail
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‎01-29-2004 03:08 AM

‎01-29-2004 03:08 AM

Re: gunzip error file too large on file system with largefiles enabled

As the others mention, you have run into the issue with gzip and HP-UX. I've seen no version of gzip that reliably works on files larger than 2GB on HP-UX EXCEPT the commercial version that you can buy from pkware: http://www.pkware.com/products/enterprise/unix/?src=homeF3

This does work on huge files, its just not free.


Chris
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