Compress problem

[Mort d`Hump]

In article <493 at dhump.lakesys.COM> I wrote:
>I am having trouble using compress to de-compress large .Z files.
>
>The operation terminates with a "File too large" error.

	Thanks to all those who replied, the trouble was with the
	system ulimit. As root I bumped the ulimit with "ulimit 8000".
	All worked as expected.

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