Can't copy giant file (*not* ULIMIT problem)

Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA allbery at NCoast.ORG
Sun May 5 09:26:13 AEST 1991


As quoted from <1991May4.162149.9341 at mcrsys.UUCP> by tony at mcrsys.UUCP (Tony Becker):
+---------------
| From article <1991May04.023545.535 at crom2.uucp>, by jim at crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller):
| >      I can't copy a 24-meg file without getting it truncated to 16 megs.
> (to a DOS filesystem)
| 
|   1) swap space (for cp) ???
|   2) largest contiguous free disk space ???
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Being that he said it was to a DOS filesystem:  isn't 16MB the maximum
file size under DOS 3.3?  (I have no idea about DOS 4.x.)

++Brandon
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