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# 8  
Old 07-16-2013
You may have a 32bit implementation of gzip -= the file command will show something like below - note the text in red. I would guess 32bit in your case.

Code:
file /usr/bin/gzip
/usr/bin/gzip: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped
/usr/bin/gzip: ELF 64-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped

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Old 07-16-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
You may have a 32bit implementation of gzip -= the file command will show something like below - note the text in red. I would guess 32bit in your case.

Code:
file /usr/bin/gzip
/usr/bin/gzip: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped
/usr/bin/gzip: ELF 64-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped

Please have a look at below details.

Code:
 
$ gzip -V
gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H
 
$ file /usr/bin/gzip
/usr/bin/gzip: executable (RISC System/6000) or object module
$ uname
AIX

# 10  
Old 07-16-2013
You have a 20-year-old version of gzip.
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Old 07-16-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
You have a 20-year-old version of gzip.
Smilie
# 12  
Old 07-16-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
You have a 20-year-old version of gzip.
It's amazing it can process files 20Gb in size, considering the average HDD size back then was less than 240MB
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# 13  
Old 07-18-2013
Not really... It's not supposed to know or care how long the file is, it just reads and writes and churns until the OS says 'ok, all done'. If a stream compressor can't handle input of arbitrary length, that's a bug.

So the code that broke down here technically had nothing to do with the compression. Fortunately. Smilie
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