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Date:      Mon, 02 Oct 2000 21:36:28 -0400
From:      "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net>
To:        "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Rick Knebel" <rknebel@uplink.net>
Subject:   Re: file size
Message-ID:  <200010030130.VAA08131@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001002092728.A18872@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:27:28 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:

>If you had a crash, it wasn't due to that.  You might get a "invalid
>compressed data--length mismatch" error when uncompressing a file over
>2gb, because the internal gzip headers only store a 32-bit filesize for
>the uncompressed file, but FreeBSD itself doesn't care.

So what can one use to create compressed files over 2GB?


francisco
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