Re: onload and onunload - largefile aware?

Ferronato wrote: > When you onunload table (not 'file') you can mentionate the tape size, > block size, etc.... in KB. And, if you wanna write it in the tape unit > of other server, see: > e.g. > onunload -t [<hostname>:]/dev/rmt0 -s 8000000 -b 1024 > <database>:<table>> > I have never heared that the size is limited of 2 GB. The key words in the question were '(actually a file)'. if it was written to 'actually a tape', there would be no problem, as Ferronato said. Writing to a file, the stdio library usually stops you at the 2GB limit - well, the fact that the pre-9.40 versions of the utilities running on 32-bit machines are not using a version of stdio that is aware of large files causes the trouble. > "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote: >>On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 06:01:02 -0500, Geezer From Freezer wrote: >>>Are onload and onunload large file aware at all? >>> >>>I need to onload to a TAPE device (actually a file) larger than 2Gb! >> >>Depends on version. In 9.4x and later, yes, in all other releases, no. I think that most 64-bit platforms should be immune from the trouble, even prior to 9.40. But 9.40 is where it is guaranteed (to the extent that any software is guaranteed). -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/