Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:1784 comp.sys.att:4863 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ames!zorch!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Large files on the Unix PC Message-ID: <12041@cup.portal.com> Date: 3 Dec 88 02:53:03 GMT References: <5466@rphroy.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 14 Your documentation is a bunch of hooey, bushwa, crapola, etc. Take you pick! Run the ulimit program to see what the largest file size can be; on my system the value is 2,147,483,647 (commas inserted by me for clarity). I've had single files over 12 Megabytes. For example, the GNU Emacs 18.52 compressed tar file is 4.5MB and when you uncompress it the resultant file is 11.4MB. Best I can determine, the ONLY limit on a file's size is the available disk space. Run your system below 1MB free and watch the nifty gas gauge icon appear in the status window! :-) Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]