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Re: Gzip Problems
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: Gzip Problems |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:13:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.90 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
|> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
|>
|> > address@hidden (Lack Mr G M) writes:
|> >
|> > |> In article <address@hidden>, address@hidden (Paul Eggert) writes:
|> > |> |>
|> > |> |> Sorry, gzip 1.2.4 does not support large files on Solaris 2.6.
|> > |>
|> > |> gzip 1.2.4a does. (tested with a 6GB file after a standard build).
|> >
|> > There were no code changes between 1.2.4 and 1.2.4a, so both should work
|> > identically.
|>
|> I think plain gzip 1.2.4 (or 1.2.4a) should work for some special
|> cases of large files. If you configure gzip 1.2.4 with special
|> options (i.e. something more complicated than plain "configure;
|> make"), then you can get a version of gzip that will work on many
|> large files. But even this method produces a gzip with known bugs,
|> and I don't recommend it. I would use gzip 1.3 instead.
Where is this version available? It does not seem to exist on ftp.gnu.org
(at least not on our mirror).
Andreas.
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