Am 10. Jan, 2003 schw=E4tzte George Toft so:
> "David A. Sinck" wrote:
> > dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3Doink
> > yes 'abcdabcd' > oink
> I was recording streaming media from the Internet. If I used xmms, it
> would get to 2.1G and segfault. Using dd, I could create a 4 GB file.
> Using mplayer, I can create a 4 GB mp3 (my current stream is 2589036544
> bytes in size - clearly larger than 2.1 GB). So it is not the
> filesystem - it is the application's ability to deal with large files.
> xmmx cannot, mplayer can. dd can, and apparently, yes cannot.
That wasn't due to 'yes', it was due to the shell via redirection.
ciao,
der.hans
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