Re: tar for largefile on sun solaris 5.6

[Paul Eggert]

   From: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
   Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 22:07:56 -0400

   /usr/local/alpha/bin/tar: off_t value 17179885568 is too large to fit 
   in a 33-bit field

Standard tar format can only represent files smaller than 2**33 bytes
(8 Gigabytes).

   GNU `tar' 1.12.lfs.3

Please try using the latest test version of GNU tar.  It uses a
nonstandard extension to tar format that can represent files smaller
than 2**94 bytes (16384 Yottabytes).  If you use this tar, you should
be limited only by the 2**63-byte (8-Exabyte) limit imposed by your
OS's off_t and by any other limits imposed by your OS's filesystem
implementation.

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/