Hi Stephen,
The error when trying to do an FTP upload to Moylan's FTP Server is:
ftp> mput *.mpg
mput bdoday2pt1.mpg (y|n|q)? y
Error 5 from DosOpen.
ftp>

I'm guessing it's a > 2gb problem....

Cheers,

Paul.

Stephen Worthington wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Paul Smedley  on Mon, 22
> Mar 2004 23:32:34 +1030
> 
> 
>>Hi All,
>>After changing motherboard, I needed to reinstall Win2k (Don't ask - 
>>'tis a long story!!).  Prior to the reinstall, I transferred a 4.5gb 
>>video file fron the NTFS c: to one of my OS/2 JFS drives using a 
>>straight file copy.
>>
>>I'm now wondering how to get the file back into Windows so that I can 
>>finish editing it before burning to DVD.
>>
>>I tried transferring to the server but OS/2's Netbios limits files to 
>>2gig.  Transfer via FTP failed too.  RAR wouldn't work with the file 
>>either presumably due to the file size (I thought I'd split it into 
>>500mb chunks).
>>
>>Any suggestions?  A FAT32 partition won't help as it has a 4gig file 
>>size limitation.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> 
> You should be able to FTP it - what went wrong with that?  What FTP
> server are you using?  There are plenty to choose from, including some
> that are still being developed, where you might be able to get the
> authors to update them to use the new APIs for handling > 2 Gbyte files
> if they do not already:
> 
>    http://www.inetpowerserver.com
>    http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2/software.html
> 
> You could try splitting the file with the GNU file utility split.exe,
> but I suspect that may not handle > 2 Gbyte files.  Maybe someone has
> done a recent version of it that would work, or you could do your own
> port from the source and fix it to use the huge file API.
> 
> In the worst case you might have to move your DVD burner onto the OS/2
> PC, then you can burn it to a DVD-RW or DVD+RW.
> 
> --
> Stephen Worthington
> 
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