Huh? # hrd /windows/desktop/TheMachineStops.htm Mach.htm Xfer complete: 155+38 # l Mach.htm 154 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 78251 Oct 25 12:13 Mach.htm # 'more' shows that the contents are all there, and fine. ('hrd' is a command in my V6 under Ersatz11 that reads an arbitrary file off the host file system. Guess I need to set the date on the system!) V6 definitely supports fairly large files; see the code in bmap() in subr.c, which shows that the basic structure on disk can describe files of 7*256 (1792) + 256*256 (65536) blocks, or 67328 blocks total (34MB). (In reality, of course, a file can't reach that limit; first, a disk partition in V6 is limited to 64K blocks, but from that one has to deduct blocks for the ilist, etc; further, the argument to bmap() is an int, which limits the 'block number in file' to 16 bits, and in fact the code returns an error if the high bit in the 'block number in file' is set.) I don't think there is one; the largest are just less than 64KB. I don't think this is deliberate, other than in the sense that they didn't put any huge files in the distro so it would fit on a couple of RK packs. Probably 'count' is an 'int' in dd, i.e. limited to 16 bits. No longs in V6 C (as distributed, although later versions of the C compiler for V6 do support longs - see my 'bringing up Unix' pages). Noel