The limitation could be that the login shell is not compiled with
LARGEFILE enabled--that was a bug that plagued tcsh in various distros
for awhile, though I haven't seen that bug lately.  In the past, I ended
up getting the Mandrake SRPM for tcsh and porting it into Red Hat to fix
the problem, or just using bash.

I think there's a way to use "strace" or "strings" to see if LARGEFILE
was enabled when the shell was compiled, but it's been so long I don't
remember--maybe someone else can chime in with the answer, or you could
dredge it up from the list archives.

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 17:53, Josh Welch wrote:
> I am thinking that things are dying as a result of this friggin huge file, I
> am able to restore just fine from a smaller backup on a different machine. I

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Jonathan Dill <jfdill AT jfdill DOT com>