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The Tuesday 2006-02-28 at 08:08 +0100, David Wright wrote:

> I think it is more a case that some software is still compiled without big 
> file support, so the files over 2GB either crap-out or they get truncated.
> 
> Firefox, for example, has problems with large ISO's, downloading the Debian 
> DVD image with firefox made a 2GB file out of the original ~4GB ISO on the 
> server. 

I would never dare to dowload such a big file using firefox or mozilla... 
I wouldn't download even a 10 Mb file with it, it has barfed on me at 
mid-download so many times on me... :-(

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Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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