On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:42:59PM -0800, Cassandra Lynette Ludwig wrote (0.40): > I cannot split the video data into multiple files - this is not text it is > compressed DVI data. If you do not know the file format, do not suggest > options like this.
Sure you can. Once you've got the (DVI?) data into a large file, use a file splitter (dd would do it on Linux, not sure what your options are on Win32, but maybe you could try the Cygnus port of the GNU toolset) to chunk them into 2GB pieces, copy the pieces to the Linux server, and then use cat or dd to put them back together. The data is just bits... as long as you don't try to _use_ the 2GB pieces you'll be fine. > Actually, Linux programmers implemented the file transfer protocol, > therefore the fault is with linux. Well, the problem is really that all of the protocols assume that you're only using 32 bit numbers to represent a file (31 bits for seeking, + the top bit to flag errors). To use large files (> 2^31 bytes), you need to use 64 bits in your protocol. NFSv3 does this. NFSv2, and Samba do not (at least, Samba doesn't seem to do this). I think that chunking your data is your best bet, but maybe you can find a more integrated solution. > Don't annoy me anymore with messages as un thought out as this. It feels > like the sort of responses I used to get from the Redhat technical support > team. No need to be offensive. M
