Re: Corrupt gzipped exports on Solaris 2.6

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Update: The problem appears to be with Solaris and gunzip. I've found I can ftp the file to another platform and unzip it there.

"Chuck" <chuck_hamilton_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:9t3k1s$669g$1_at_ID-85580.news.dfncis.de...
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> I've recently been getting corrupt gzipped oracle export files on
> Solaris 2.6. It appears that gzip does not handle files > 2g on
> Solaris 2.6. Anyone else experience this? Is there a workaround?
> I've tried apply the 4g-patch.tar from http://www.gzip.org/#faq10,
> but
> that doesn't seem to solve the problem either. The patch notes say
> that the gzipped files created with the unpatched gzip should be
> ok, but you need this patch to unzip them. I applied the patch and
> still get corrupted files when I unzip them.
>
> The files were created by piping an Oracle export into gzip like
> this...
>
> mkfifo expdat.dmp
> gzip < expdat.dmp > myfile.dmp.gz &
> exp user/password file=expdat.dmp full=y
> - - --
> Chuck Hamilton
> Oracle DBA
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