Uncompressing large files
Steven King
sking at nowhere.uucp
Mon Mar 18 11:08:21 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar15.141304.3696 at virtech.uucp> scum at virtech.uucp (Steven C. Monroe) writes:
>bhoughto at hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>
>>In article <1991Mar13.083650.30 at edwards-saftd-2.af.mil> elston at edwards-saftd-2.af.mil writes:
>>>I recently received GNU's C compiler in compressed format which weighed in at
>>>a healthy 2,518,528 bytes. I tried to uncompress it (using GNU's compress
>>>utility) and got the error message "File too large". I have tried looking
>
Hmmm, isn't "File too large" the message one receives when one attempts
to create a file larger than ones ulimit...
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