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Re: [Bug-tar] RE: Regarding the limitation of Tar.exe to tar a file grea


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] RE: Regarding the limitation of Tar.exe to tar a file greater than 1.99 GB
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 09:48:18 -0700
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"Vijeya Aravindan Anbalagan -X \(vanbalag - WIPRO at Cisco\)" <address@hidden> 
writes:

> We are facing problems when we have a file of greater than 2.0 GB in the
> directory which we are trying to TAR.

This was fixed many years ago in the 'tar' sources.  Perhaps your
'tar' executable is ancient; or perhaps it wasn't built properly; or
perhaps you are running an ancient O.S.  In any case, you should
contact whoever built your 'tar' (it wasn't us).




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