The old beta will die on you in about 10 months. Sticking with it for a while is fine, but at some point you'll want to bite the bullet, even if it means more difficult data transfers.
I don't know the tar 'xz' limits on the beta version and can't give you any guidelines. It will be a complex function of the ram on the device, OS quirks, what else is going on, what has gone on recently, etc. I suspect what you have already transferred is cutting into the max size of the next transfer so it is a moving guess. You might get some idea by comparing the size of the tar file (not gzipped) with the max size of a char vector you can create on the device without getting limit error. The limits and problems with the product release are probably more severe, but a little more straightforward. On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:42 PM, J. Patrick Harrington <[email protected]>wrote: > The data transfer process discussion for the new iPhone app > has me confused, so until things stabilize, I've not installed > the new version from the App Store (how long can I run the > old test-flight beta ?). :-) > Anyway, I wanted to use the iTunes method to move a library > of model stellar atmospheres to the iPhone. Uncompressed, each > is 1.38 Mb, and I tried moving all 96 in one .tar.gz file -- > that's 132 Mb. The tar 'xz'; command gave me an out of memory > error. I tried a smaller bunch, 11 models (15 Mb) and that > went OK. I just wonder what the size limit for the iPhone "tar" > is? Rather than finding out by trial & error. > This is on an iPhone 4S 64GB. > J on this phone is pretty amazing. It runs fairly complex > computations at about 1/4 the speed of my MacBook Pro, which > for most programs, that run in seconds, is an insignificant > difference. Thanks for this wonderful port -- I just hope the > Apple app-police don't force crippling restrictions on it. > > Patrick > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
