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

Gary Weimer 253-7796 weimer at garden.ssd.kodak.com
Tue May 7 05:46:57 AEST 1991


In article <1991May04.023545.535 at crom2.uucp>, jim at crom2.uucp (James P.
H. Fuller) writes:
|> 
|>      I can't copy a 24-meg file without getting it truncated to 16 megs.
|> 
|> My ULIMIT is 73728 512-byte blocks, which should allow me to write a 36 mb
|> 
|>     # cp /dos2/genbank/gbpri.seq /usr4/genbank 

You could try:

    # dd if=/dos2/genbank/gbpri.seq of=/usr4/genbank/gbpri.seq bs=512

I don't know if it will have the same problem or not...

weimer at ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )



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