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

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

All right.
Thanks Eric. 

Can you please confirm if this tar 1.16.1 has the bug fix for the (2 GB
file stuff)

Thanks again
Vijeya 

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From: Eric Blake [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 9:23 AM
To: Vijeya Aravindan Anbalagan -X (vanbalag - WIPRO at Cisco)
Cc: Srinidhi Mandayam Chatrapathy -X (schatrap - WIPRO at Cisco);
address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] RE: Regarding the limitation of Tar.exe to tar a
file greater than 1.99 GB

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According to Vijeya Aravindan Anbalagan -X (vanbalag - WIPRO at Cisco)
on
5/3/2007 9:22 PM:
> 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.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ contains sources so you can build tar
yourself.

> 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.

cygwin.com comes with tar 1.16.1 precompiled for Windows.

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