Monks,

This is a followup to this node. I have figured out this only happens when the file is larger then 2GB, so I did some searching and seen some posts where people recommended compiling perl with large file support. So I downloaded the latest version of Perl (5.8.4), the version I was using was 5.8.0. I was reading the INSTALL file before compiling and in it states:

"Since Perl 5.6.0, Perl has supported large files (files larger than 2 gigabytes), and in many common platforms like Linux or Solaris this support is on by default."

I'm still getting the same error message with 5.8.4 when trying to use File::Readbackwards with a file larger then 2GB.

Anyone have anyother ideas why this isn't working?

Thanks,
Dru

In reply to Problem with Large Files by Dru

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