From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 26 05:26:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 581DB16A41C for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 05:26:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D96F43D48 for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 05:26:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j5Q5Q354066545; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:26:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:26:03 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Norberto Meijome Message-ID: <20050626052603.GB9894@dan.emsphone.com> References: <42BE3798.1020200@meijome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42BE3798.1020200@meijome.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gzip from ports vs gzip from system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 05:26:04 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 26), Norberto Meijome said: > Hi there, > I had to install gzip from ports as gzip from base system doesn't seem > to support >2GB files. Now I find myself with a set of gzip utils in > /usr/bin/ (system) and one in /usr/local/ (ports). I have never had any problems with gzip and files over 2gb. Do you have an example? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com