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

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

Thank you Paul.
Just a question here. (could be silly):
Where can be get the free licensed copy of Tar.exe which we can use. We
are not building the Tar.exe here.
It would be great if you can let us know the location where we can get
the latest Tar.exe with this fix.

Very much appreciate your response,
Thanks
Vijeya

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Eggert [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:18 PM
To: Vijeya Aravindan Anbalagan -X (vanbalag - WIPRO at Cisco)
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] RE: Regarding the limitation of Tar.exe to tar a
file greater than 1.99 GB

"Vijeya Aravindan Anbalagan -X \(vanbalag - WIPRO at Cisco\)"
<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).