Re: Am I hosed? gunzip question/problem

Found the initial problem. Seems that older releases of gzip allow you to build .gz files greater than 4 gig but when you try to uncompress them it blows up. Got current version from SUN and the gunzip is now working. Rob Vorbroker > OK on a client's development box I have been performing archives using > ontape to a named pipe to gzip to create a ontape_save.gz file of > approximately 7 gig. > > Now I need to perform a restore (ontape -r) but when I start the gunzip > ontape_save.gz command (to said named pipe or by itself) I get the > following message: > > ************************************************************** > gunzip ontape_save.gz > ontape_save.gz: Value too large for defined data type > ************************************************************** > What is the problem? Is there anything I can do about this? Or > am I truly hosed? In the future should I go back to using compress iso > gzip? > > 32 bit - Sun box - SunOS 5.8 > IDS v9.30 > > Many thanks in advance. > Rob Vorbroker