Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:37:52 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net> Subject: Re: file size Message-ID: <20001002223752.A23329@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200010030130.VAA08131@sanson.reyes.somos.net>; from "Francisco Reyes" on Mon Oct 2 21:36:28 GMT 2000 References: <20001002092728.A18872@dan.emsphone.com> <200010030130.VAA08131@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
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In the last episode (Oct 02), Francisco Reyes said: > 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? Gzip. Just ignore that partcular error if you see it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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