Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] any way to exceed the file size limit?

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From: "George P Nychis" <gnychis@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:15:53 -0500 (EST)
I see... i guess i'll just use a bash script to go through each of the fragments i need to parse

> On 3/15/06, George P Nychis <gnychis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Ok I guess i'm a little confused because I have .ISO files and such on
>> my hard drive that are like 5GB, so why is my OS allowing those large
>> files and not large pcap files?
> 
> these probably use APIs that hanlde longer offsets.
> 
> There was a discussion about this not long ago in the dev ml I cannot find
> right now.
> 
> BTW. consider that ethereal uses N times more memory than the file it is
> loading so the hard limit would be the RAM on the computer I believe.
> 
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