On Sun Oct 13, 2002; 06:21PM -0700 Firsto Lasto propagated the following: > > Hi, > > I think this message was caught in a mail loop from ... 1996 or something, > because what it says is you have not tested your ftp software with files > larger than 4gigs. > > Obviously this is some joke or something, since these days a 4gig file is > not rare or exceptional or interesting in any way. > > Can someone answer this question with recent info ? Again, I can see how > back in the days of 4.3BSD and SunOS 4 that there would be file size limits > like that, but obviously they would not exist in this modern day and age. >
The FTP spec may honestly have limits for file size. I don't know. You could of course try using NFS or "the ghetto netcat method"(tm), which is: recvhost$ nc -l -p 12345 > thefile sendhost$ nc recvhost 12345 < thefile ^C (You need to ^C out of netcat once the file has finished transferring (check the ls output)) This can actually be faster than doing an ftp. ;) (netcat is available in /usr/ports/net/netcat) > thanks! > Good luck! -wd -- chip norkus; unix geek and programmer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "question = (to) ? be : !be;" --Shakespeare http://telekinesis.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
