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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:45:18 -0500
To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject: Re: 2GB limit on gzip?
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At 10:45 AM 3/13/01 -0600, Christopher Farley wrote:
>Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) wrote:
>
> > On 13 Mar 2001 01:42:17 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:
> >
> > Does
> > which gzip
> > which gunzip
> > give the same hard linked files ?
>
>Yes.
>
> > 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
> > MD5 (dump-c-u2) = 8cde4cf999407ab959b1355bd62bb94d
> > MD5 (dump-c-u2) = 8cde4cf999407ab959b1355bd62bb94d
> > b2#
>
>On *very* large files (4GB), I can not even get the files to
>finish decompressing before gunzip returns 'invalid compressed
>data--format violated'

What if you create a big file, do an md5 checksum, copy it to another 
location, and compare the md5 ?

         ---Mike



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