2GB LIMIT ON ORACLE 8.0.5.0.0

Many years ago ,when I was a child ..
One of my customers had a very old system solaris 5.6 and oralce 8.0.5.0.0
Our aim was to move data to a newer IBM P5 server ,So the only way seems exp/imp .
When I tried to get a full export dump file size exceed 2gb limit and export terminated.
When searched metalink I learned that this old version was not supporting files bigger then 2 gb.
multiple export files and filesize parameters were not avaliable in this version.So a trciky way came handy.You can check metalink note
Subject: SCRIPT TO EXPORT USING UNIX PIPES Doc ID: 1014083.102

Simply
1- create a named pipe
2- use compress command in background to work when pipe is invoked
3- start export utulity using pipe as dump destination
4- You now have a compressed file , can overcome 2 gb filesize limit.!!

cd /VAT13/ExpImp/
/usr/sbin/mknod /VAT13/ExpImp/FullExpNP.dmp p ## named pipe creation
nohup compress < /VAT13/ExpImp/FullExpNP.dmp > /VAT13/ExpImp/FullExpNP`date '+%d%m%y'`.dmp.Z &
nohup exp sys/oracle8 full=y FILE=/VAT13/ExpImp/FullExpNP.dmp log=/VAT13/ExpImp/hede.log 2> /VAT13/ExpImp/FullExpNP`date '+%d%m%y'`.log&

Take care you will not a file named /VAT13/ExpImp/FullExpNP.dmp it is only a pipe,
you will have dump files in format /VAT13/ExpImp/FullExpNP06032009.dmp
And pipe's size will not get bigger.
DONE.