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Re: openr or openw with COMPRESS flag broken for large data files [message #76460 is a reply to message #76459]

Thu, 09 June 2011 09:05

Nigel Wade
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Registered: March 1998

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On 09/06/11 15:37, kBob wrote:

>
> From my dealing with gzip, inside and outside of IDL, there is a 2Gb
> file size limit.
>
>

There isn't any 2GB file size limit for gzip. Your filesystem may well
have a 2GB limit (FAT32/VFAT for example), but gzip has none.

As an example:

$ ls -lh user.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 159G 2010-09-28 19:11 user.tgz

that's a 160GB gzipped tar file.

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Nigel Wade

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		Re: openr or openw with COMPRESS flag broken for large data files By: JJ on Thu, 09 June 2011 09:25
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		Re: openr or openw with COMPRESS flag broken for large data files By: KRDean on Thu, 09 June 2011 07:37

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