On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:44:51PM -0700, Tyler Hall wrote: > Greetings,
Hello, > As I've been researching this all week, I'm getting very frustrated. I > never knew there was a 2GB limit for a file. There is not, given the right circumstances. > Let me first explain my > situation, before everyone thinks I'm insane for having an 2GB file. Not crazy at all. I frequently have files >2GB. I capture video from a TV tuner at 5Mb/s which amounts to about 2.2GB/h. > Anyways -- My problem is, I'm trying to grab these movies off of the windows > server How? > and these files are about 3 gig each, and since Linux has a limit of > 2GB, I am unable to get them. No limit given the right circumstances. > Unfortunally, it stopped at 2GB and told me 'file size limit exceeded' That is a problem with the ftp command, not Linux (per se). Programs that are to deal with files >2GB need to be built to deal with it. By default, yes they do have a 2GB limit. There are a special set of compile flags that a program needs to have set for it to deal with files >2GB. You might need to rebuild your ftp command with these, or try a different ftp command. There are several. You could try lftp, curl, wget and I am sure there are more. > So, > now I'm way confused. I can create an 3GB file with dd, but I am unable to > download a 3GB file. dd was compiled to deal with files >2GB, ftp was (apparently) not. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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