also sprach Eric N. Valor (on Tue, 03 Jul 2001 12:07:30PM -0700):
> I keep getting this message while trying to access a (presumably) very
> large file. It's a tarball restored from tape. I can't do anything more
> than "ls". Even "ls -l" bombs with the message "Value too large for
> defined data type".
>
> What can I do about this?
cat /dev/null > filename
took me a while to find that out myself.
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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