diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index 939803abbd..eebd09b296 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Take\scare\snot\sto\smodify\sthe\ssqlite*\spointer\sto\ssqlite_exec()\sif\swe\ssuspect\nthat\sthe\spointer\sis\sstale\s-\sthat\sit\shas\spreviously\sbeen\spassed\sto\nsqlite_close().\s\sPossible\sfix\sfor\sticket\s#202.\s\sPrior\sto\sthis\sfix,\stest\nmisuse-5.3\swas\scausing\sa\schange\sto\sa\sbuffer\sthat\shad\sbeen\spreviously\sfree()-ed.\s(CVS\s799)
-D 2002-12-17T13:05:26
+C Make\ssure\sthe\shost\smachine\shas\senough\sdisk\sspace\sbefore\srunning\sthe\nlarge\sfile\stests.\s(CVS\s800)
+D 2002-12-17T14:13:49
 F Makefile.in 868c17a1ae1c07603d491274cc8f86c04acf2a1e
 F Makefile.linux-gcc b86a99c493a5bfb402d1d9178dcdc4bd4b32f906
 F README f1de682fbbd94899d50aca13d387d1b3fd3be2dd
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ F src/vdbe.c aa6165ae4f2303795e4c5531293576c541363e40
 F src/vdbe.h b7584044223104ba7896a7f87b66daebdd6022ba
 F src/where.c af235636b7bc7f7f42ee1c7162d1958ad0102cab
 F test/all.test 873d30e25a41b3aa48fec5633a7ec1816e107029
-F test/bigfile.test 38d1071817caceb636c613e3546082b90e749a49
+F test/bigfile.test 1cd8256d4619c39bea48147d344f348823e78678
 F test/bigrow.test 8ab252dba108f12ad64e337b0f2ff31a807ac578
 F test/btree.test 10e75aec120ecefc0edc4c912a0980a43db1b6c2
 F test/btree2.test e3b81ec33dc2f89b3e6087436dfe605b870c9080
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ F www/speed.tcl a20a792738475b68756ea7a19321600f23d1d803
 F www/sqlite.tcl ae3dcfb077e53833b59d4fcc94d8a12c50a44098
 F www/tclsqlite.tcl 1db15abeb446aad0caf0b95b8b9579720e4ea331
 F www/vdbe.tcl 2013852c27a02a091d39a766bc87cff329f21218
-P 1c58b4fc032c5975dcce9b8ae844c0e516254a17
-R 915a4210a181a076d8ac7e4e83a94eed
+P f04547edfa1643ce52925d317915badfc676bd8b
+R c9be58291f5dab2cb8e7f3e84b5d8006
 U drh
-Z eb21639b26597fa970a75e60b827244e
+Z 32f22a385f20425fc7ff8f101f10b6d6
diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index ad2f0d6810..f542bd796d 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-f04547edfa1643ce52925d317915badfc676bd8b
\ No newline at end of file
+b1ec547865a76541951433630bd4528d1988a4de
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/bigfile.test b/test/bigfile.test
index 37f2a24554..b3f56a08bf 100644
--- a/test/bigfile.test
+++ b/test/bigfile.test
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # focus of this script testing the ability of SQLite to handle database
 # files larger than 4GB.
 #
-# $Id: bigfile.test,v 1.1 2002/12/01 02:00:58 drh Exp $
+# $Id: bigfile.test,v 1.2 2002/12/17 14:13:49 drh Exp $
 #
 
 set testdir [file dirname $argv0]
@@ -43,9 +43,18 @@ do_test bigfile-1.1 {
   }
 } $::MAGIC_SUM
 
+# Try to create a large file - a file that is larger than 2^32 bytes.
+# If this fails, it means that the system being tested does not support
+# large files.  So skip all of the remaining tests in this file.
+#
+db close
+if {[catch {fake_big_file 4096 test.db}]} {
+  puts "**** Unable to create a file larger than 4096 MB. *****"
+  finish_test
+  return
+}
+
 do_test bigfile-1.2 {
-  db close
-  fake_big_file 4096 test.db
   sqlite db test.db
   execsql {
     SELECT md5sum(x) FROM t1;
@@ -77,9 +86,15 @@ do_test bigfile-1.5 {
     SELECT md5sum(x) FROM t2;
   }
 } $::MAGIC_SUM
+
+db close
+if {[catch {fake_big_file 8192 test.db}]} {
+  puts "**** Unable to create a file larger than 8192 MB. *****"
+  finish_test
+  return
+}
+
 do_test bigfile-1.6 {
-  db close
-  fake_big_file 8192 test.db
   sqlite db test.db
   execsql {
     SELECT md5sum(x) FROM t1;
@@ -108,9 +123,15 @@ do_test bigfile-1.10 {
     SELECT md5sum(x) FROM t3;
   }
 } $::MAGIC_SUM
+
+db close
+if {[catch {fake_big_file 16384 test.db}]} {
+  puts "**** Unable to create a file larger than 16384 MB. *****"
+  finish_test
+  return
+}
+
 do_test bigfile-1.11 {
-  db close
-  fake_big_file 16384 test.db
   sqlite db test.db
   execsql {
     SELECT md5sum(x) FROM t1;