From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 14:58:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (sparge.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265A637B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:58:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@nbrewer.com) Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 380A6383071; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:58:15 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:58:14 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2GB limit on gzip? Message-ID: <20010312165812.A82168@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I try to gzip a large (4 GB) file, it creates the gzip file without any problem. However, gunzip complains of "CRC errors" during the decompression. I've heard this is because gzip's internal headers only store a 32-bit filesize, and hence has a 2 GB limit. Are there any compression/decompression tools that work with files greater than 2GB? -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message