[Bug-tar] RE: Regarding the limitation of Tar.exe to tar a file greater than 1.99 GB

[Vijeya Aravindan Anbalagan -X \(vanbalag - WIPRO at Cisco\)]

Hi All,

 

I am Vijeya Aravindan working in India. I have a query regarding the GNU Tar.exe in this e-mail and would very appreciate a response to this e-mail.

We are using the Tar.exe of the following license in one of our applications. We are using the Tar.exe with the following license:

 

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

 

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

 

GNU General Public License is available at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php;

 

Documentation and Source code for TAR are available at:

 

http://www.gnu.org/directory/tar.html

 

We are facing problems when we have a file of greater than 2.0 GB in the directory which we are trying to TAR. Hence, we use a method to split the file during the Tar process into chunks of 1 GB and during the Extraction process, we join these splitted files. We feel that this is not a very smooth process.

 

Can you please let us know if this has been fixed lately or any work around to over come this issue?

Also please feel free to forward this email to the respective mailer aliases/folks.

 

Thank you very much,

Vijeya