On 12/15/05, John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > > > 2GB is the maximum filesize and it's due to limitations in the > > That was so until about RHL 7.1. > > There are individual programs that cannot handle files larger than 2 Gb, > and that leads to problems downloading DVD images, but Linux and glibc > have both been fine with them for years. [cbell@circe ~]$ bc bc 1.06 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. 1024^3*2 2147483648 [cbell@circe ~]$ ls -l outfile -rw-rw-r-- 1 cbell cbell 3080519680 Dec 16 15:14 outfile [cbell@circe ~]$ Well I'll be! Thank you for the correction, John. :-) -- Chris "I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford. I trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."
