Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: "Matt Mahoney" <matmaho...@yahoo.com>
Date: 19 Jun 2005 14:20:39 -0700
Local: Sun, Jun 19 2005 5:20 pm
Subject: Re: The C-Prize
jim_bow...@hotmail.com wrote: I downloaded the English version, about a 949 MB gzip file, > My cohosting service gave me the go-ahead to wget > http://download.wikimedia.org (rate limited to 1Mbps) so I should have > the current versions of all products, plus their edit histories, > captured around 7am Pacific time assuming I'm not rate limited by > wikimedia.org itself. uncompressing to 2.7 GB. Took a few minutes with a cable modem. WinME can handle files over 2GB but a lot of programs like "type" apparently can't, and give strange errors like "access denied". gzip 1.2.4 dies. gzip 1.3.5 works OK when used normally, but gzip -dc redirected to a file gives an error, "GZIP.EXE: stdout: Bad file descriptor", and truncates the output to 2 GB (which is actually what I want because I can read it). The data is not exactly plain text. There is a lot of structure, o extend the cultural, educational and other benefits of the Framework 450;ナキズム]]\n[[no:Anarkisme]]\n[[pl:Anarchizm]]\n[[pt 72;м]]\n[[sv:Anarkism]]\n[[th:ลัทธิอ&# Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews | Volume=8 -- Matt Mahoney You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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