Hi,
>They are both lovely suggestions, unfortunately the problem is a bit more >substantial. The 1st thing I tried was "tar -zxvf home.tgz", and a couple >of the things I tried soon after that were cat and less. Neither of which >read any of it -- less is the only thing that did anything useful, which >was saying "Cannot seek to that file position" which made me think "hmm, >did I hear something about stuff not being able to seek past 2gb??" >You might think that it would sit there chewing on the file for a bit >before it got to some point beyond what it could deal with. Nope. Didn't >even start -- failed to even open the file up. >Any more ideas ? :) Try to patch your gzip/cat/less (for whatever you have the source). The kernel definitly can handle files up to 4gig. i think some "old" tools use "long int" for the filepos ... which gets you into trouble when trying to use the high/sign-bit (2 gig => 2^31, 4 gig => 2^32). i would be more specific ... but i'm at work and only got this f...ing N(o)T(hanx) Machine :( i think you should watch out for seek and lseek (or something similar). btw: please don't mind my "bad english" ... ;) ciao Anti
