Hello all,

I need to process a 3GB text file, and create a 3GB output file. I use 5.005_02 on Solaris 5.7. I also tried out 5.6.0. 

    || % unlimit
    || % perl -ne1 a.large.file
    || Can't open a.large.file: Value too large for defined data type.
    || % perl -e 'open FF, "a.large.file" or die; print 0 . <FF>;'
    || Died at -e line 1.
    || %
    || % perl -v | grep 5.6
    || This is perl, v5.6.0 built for sun4-solaris
    || % perl -V | grep -i large
    ||     useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define
    ||   Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
    || %

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I haven't dealt with largefiles before, and would appreciate any info on how to read from and write to them. Thanks.

peace,
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In reply to Help: Writing to largefiles by kripa0

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