Chuck wrote:
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> I'm already doing something like that. I'm piping (using a named
> pipe) a stream into gzip. It completes with no errors or warnings but
> when tou try to extract it you get garbage. I've tried the "cat"
> method to extract too but still get the same garbage.
>
> Chuck
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> "Frank" <frank.brauer_at_N_O__S_P_A_M.talknet.de> wrote in message
> news:vxpJ7.6526$BG6.782192653_at_news.tli.de...
> >
> > Hi Chuck,
> >
> > As far as I know gzip on Solaris 2.6 can not handle files >2GB. You
> > may try to do something similar to
> > tar cf - . | gzip -c >output.tar.gz
> > and
> > cat out.tar.gz | gzip -dc - | tar xf -
> > to revert it. make sure your filesystem is able to handle files
> > >2GB.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Frank
> >
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For the (myriad of) tools that have dramas past 2G, typically a pipe
somewhere in the middle through 'split' to keep things under that limit
works well.
hth
connor
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Received on Mon Nov 19 2001 - 11:56:46 CST
