I am decompressing large (>1GB compressed) genome sequence files. I have plenty of free space on a fast scsi and 256MB of RAM. When I tried to to use "uncompress filename.Z" or "gzip -d filename.Z" I got a write error each time. The solution (well, MY solution) was to use the "-c" option with uncompress and pipe the output to a specified file. Does anyone know enough about uncompress to tell me why this solves the problem? -- Eric
