On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:41:33 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > According to the man page for clamscan, > > --max-space=#n > Extract first #n kilobytes from each archive. You may > give the number in megabytes in format xM or xm, where > x is a number. > > as well, 'clamscan --help' reports, > > --max-space=#n Extract first #n > kilobytes only > > However, I frequently see references to --max-space with values such > as 1000000 - which would be equivalent to > > 1,024,000,000 bytes (1000000 kilobytes, or about 1gigabyte) > > is this correct? or is the description for --max-space wrong? i have
No, this is definitely not correct. The description is OK and (in
contrast to clamd) --max-space in clamscan uses a kilobyte unit.
> resorted to using "1M" nomenclature to be sure that i'm not telling it
> to extract everything including gigantic attachments - but would like
> to limit it to an even smaller value, like 200 kilobytes - but the
just use --max-space=200
Best regards,
Tomasz Kojm
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