Re: problem with viewing large files

[adam <adamd forensicdata com au>]

Hi Pavel,
Thanks for your reply.
I did use the large file option when I compiled mc, i could see the 4gb
file with no problems.

I suspects its a problem with the contents of the file (its a dgdump file
that was ment to be cpio).

the os details are:

SuSE 7.1
kernel 2.4.16

Thanks adam

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Hi, Adam!
>
> mc-4.5.55 is not compiled with large file support by default.
>
> The current code (see snapshot on www.midnightcommander.org) defaults to
> using 64-bit file offsets.  There are still things that need to be
> cleaned up, especially in the viewer.
>
> You din't mention the OS you are using.  On some OSes MC doesn't use mmap
> in the viewer, but instead tries to load the whole file in memory.  Of
> course it fails if the size of the file is more than the size of your
> memory and swap combined.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin