RE: gzip and java's jar

Scott,

Thanks for the info.

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Klement [mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 4:57 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: gzip and java's jar
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Charles,
> 
> I happen to know from experience that this figure is wrong.  
> Starting with
> V4R4, it was possible to create stream files larger than 2gb 
> by passing
> the O_LARGEFILE flag to the open() API, or by using the 
> open64() API to
> open the stream file.
> 
> This capability of larger stream files was added in V4R5, so 
> 2gb is not
> the maximum in V4R5!  Indeed, I wrote V4R5 programs that 
> created larger
> stream files.
> 
> However, it's certainly possible -- maybe even likely -- that the gzip
> program, jar program, etc were not upgraded to use the new large file
> support that V4R4 added.
> 
> However, if that's the case, it's a legitimate concern that they MIGHT
> still work that way today.  The only way you'll know for sure is to
> actually try it and see.
>