Re: Ontape to hard disk

Neil Truby <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> wrote: : Jon Knight wrote in message <719h0a$7oa$1@news.xmission.com>... :> :>Two related questions. Is it possible to run ontape to output to a unix : flat :>file? The complicating factor is than the DBspace in question is :>approximately 5 Gb. : You can dump to a UNIX flat file. The maximum size file that you can write : is 2GBytes. and this will probably be exceeded if your dbspace(s) total 5 : GBytes. : If you dump directly to raw disk you will not have this problem. : Neil Truby : aracnet Limited If your OS supports files over 2GB, you shouldn't have any problems. Most newer versions of UNIX have this support. I know AIX does. Just check your docs... :) -- Jon<*>