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Re: Zlib is stopping me leaving work early and going to the pub...

by hannibal (Scribe)
on Apr 06, 2001 at 19:33 UTC ( [id://70498]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Zlib is stopping me leaving work early and going to the pub...

My first question is, if it is too big for your gzip, how did you get your .gz in the first place? I suppose you got it off another system or something..

From a quick trip to the gzip homepage, FAQ #10 seems like it might be relevant, because it is about gzip handling files larger than 4 GB (it requires a patch to gzip and some added compliation flags for AIX, which caught my attention in your case). However, your file is nowhere near 4 GB. Skimming quickly though zlib's homepage, I could not find any thing about maximum file sizes for zlib. Gzip and zlib are both based on the same algorithm (deflate) but the file size thing might just be a soft limit set somewhere. My suggestion is to dig through the zlib page, and if you can't find anything there, email the authors of zlib.

Anyway I hope that helps a little :)

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