Paul Smedley wrote:

>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.
>
>  
>
A few possibilities though I can't say for sure on any of them.  Rar 
itself I don't think has the 2 Gig limit but emx that it is based on 
does.  There is an emx.dll file available that doesn't have this 
limitation but it might require the file be relinked to it (I seem to 
remember that requirement).  Another option is that Winrar runs well 
under Odin, it might handle the file.  I have seen reference in the 
Innotek GCC forum that someone has created a Zip that handles greater 
than 2G but I think the limit was 4G and I don't know how you would 
unzip it on the Windows side as it would still have the limitation.
In order to get the first one (which is probably the best option) to 
work may require requesting the auther link against the EMX that doesn't 
have the 2G limit.  The only other thing that comes to mind though it 
wouldn't be quick, see if Peter Moylan will add >2G support to his ftp 
program.  Otherwise I think I heard that IBM was going to add >2G 
support to their ftp but that was 2 Warpstock's ago. 
I assume if you did a straight file transfer that you are using the NTFS 
drivers from ecomstation?  Assuming so then you know they are read only 
which is why you can't transfer back, but you ask Serenity if there is a 
driver you could test with write capability (don't know that such is 
even close to being ready but you could ask).
Andy


 
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