From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 13 5:23:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B32537B71B for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 05:23:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.2/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2DDNYt88430; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:23:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: chris@northernbrewer.com (Christopher Farley) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2GB limit on gzip? Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:23:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20010312165812.A82168@northernbrewer.com> <20010312173441.A25752@dan.emsphone.com> <20010312195330.A82645@northernbrewer.com> <20010312213743.A7606@dan.emsphone.com> <20010312223210.A83134@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13 Mar 2001 01:42:17 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you = wrote: > >The problematic machine can gunzip smaller files without any problem, >and I have not as yet determined how big a file needs to be before there >is a problem.=20 > >As stated before, this is a problem with both gzip/gunzip and = bzip2/bunzip2.=20 > >Any ideas? I'm going to re-build the system tonight from source. You dont by chance have an old version of gunzip around that is running instead ? =20 Does which gzip which gunzip give the same hard linked files ? This is a 3.6G file b2# md5 dump-c-u2 ;gzip -2 dump-c-u2 ;gzip -d dump-c-u2.gz ; md5 = dump-c-u2=20 MD5 (dump-c-u2) =3D 8cde4cf999407ab959b1355bd62bb94d MD5 (dump-c-u2) =3D 8cde4cf999407ab959b1355bd62bb94d b2#=20 ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message