I am trying to unzip a file (that is over 2GB) into a named pipe and then
import some tables from that named pipe. However, HP-UX that I have has 2GB
file size limit. Do you have any idea how to work out this problem with big
file names?

P.S. Before I've tried to unzip with the -p option and redirect the output
to the named pipe. Didn't work. :-(

Thanks in advance!

I don't know about HP-UX's implementation of named pipes (fifos), but other
implementations I've seen have a size limit that is much smaller than the max
file size limit.

From your description, you are using the named pipe to do the same work as a
regular file. What does a named pipe buy you over a regular file in this case?

Lew Pitcher
IT Consultant, Development Services
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group

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The problem sounds like it's with the application that's trying to read
from the named pipe.  If it needs to seek randomly in its input file, it
won't work with a pipe, since they only support sequential access.

So you need to give us more details about how you're trying to use the
data.

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Why don't you install a more recent OS that has no 2Gb file size limit
( freebsd comes to my mind) on a PC with a 4Gbyte disk, unzip the
file here, and move it to you hp ?  The whole process would be done
in a few hours, and you will have introduced yourself to A Brand New World.

/PS
unzip in included in the distro, just select it in "packages" manue
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This is because Unix will break the unzip process on the files that are over
2 GIGS before it's done! In other words, the unzip process won't be
successful. Didn't I tell that? We use this named pipe to zip into it in
order to get parts of the file little by little.

Thanks.

P.S. This is ASAP, if possible.

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What I meant was "tell us the program you're using to read from the named
pipe".

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you mean `import?'  You're reading the fifo with export?

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