Uncompressing large files

[Blair P. Houghton]

In article <1991Mar13.083650.30 at edwards-saftd-2.af.mil> elston at edwards-saftd-2.af.mil writes:
>I recently received GNU's C compiler in compressed format which weighed in at
>a healthy 2,518,528 bytes. I tried to uncompress it (using GNU's compress
>utility) and got the error message "File too large".  I have tried looking

zcat < foo.Z > foo

I don't have gnu's compress or a 2.5mb file around to check,
but I bet it does the job.

				--Blair
				  "I'm the biggest frag on my block."