Cannot open 2 gig file

[John Jimenez]

We are having trouble opening a 2 gig file. We can tail it, but not open it. Is there any way to open this file?

=> #ll mthend.dat
-rw-rw-r-- 1 i1017 staff 2167315020 Jun 30 14:01 elig_n60.dat
HOST: /monthend/tmp
=> #pg mthend.dat
mthend.dat: Value too large to be stored in data type

[John Jimenez]

whoops it should have read
=> #ll mthend.dat
-rw-rw-r-- 1 i1017 staff 2167315020 Jun 30 14:01 mthend.dat
HOST: /monthend/tmp
=> #pg mthend.dat
mthend.dat: Value too large to be stored in data type

It has large files enabled.

/dev/vg07/lvol7 /monthend vxfs rw,suid,largefiles,delaylog,datainlog 0 2

[KVK]

Hi John ,

You must enable the LARGEFILES option for the file system .that u can check by

#fstyp -v /dev/vgXX/lvolX

Still if you have the same problem just try with #cat ==>Eventhough the same error contact your application vendor which it's created the your 2GB file

Since HP-UX the largefiles above 2GB

Cheers

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

A number of utilities still have internal limits eventhough the filesystem itself does not. Frankly, I can't imagine pg'ing or more'ing a 2GB+ file. You should note that utilities like vi, for example, would still have problem because you could be simply hitting maxdsiz (or maxdsiz_64bit if running a 64-bit application). I suspect that pg is a 32-bit application. You might try adding a starting linenumber to pg.

[John Jimenez]

Clay,
maxdsiz is = 268435456
maxdsiz_64 is = 1073741824

We have data files that are over 10 gig. But the files that we export at
month end are getting larger and larger and this could be the first file over
2 gig that is in a text file.

CAT works yes. This file needs to open up in a C program. A while back we had a different issue HP mentioned using the fopen instead of open and to use the +DA2.)W compiler option. When we use this it produces a core dump

[John Jimenez]

That was the 64 bit application (+DA2.0W) compiler option

[John Jimenez]

Thanks again for the help. Susan at HP prvided us with Document ID WP1100001 and the programmer was able to use the open64 to open it up.

[John Jimenez]

I am closing this thread now. thanks again