Thanks to everyone for the quick helpful responses. The gzip, bzip2 and zip binaries that ship with Solaris 8 are not compatible files larger than 2GB. To check which binaries are: man largefiles (Rene Occelli). Three valid solutions to my problem were presented: 1) Get new versions of the utilities gzip 1.3.2 is compatible (thanks Joe Fletcher) - Source from www.gzip.org bzip2 1.0.1 is compatible (thanks Cyril Pilsko) - Binaries form sunfreeware.org 2) Trick the old utilities (Warning: I have not had time to verify the compressed file, but they ran fine) Justine Stringfellow: cat <file> | bzip2 > file.bz cat <file> | zip > file.zip Casper Dik: bzip2 < file > file.bz2 3) use "split" Several people ... Thanks for all your help, mark _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Feb 13 09:38:22 2002
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