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


From: Eric Blake
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 21:59:26 -0600
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According to Vijeya Aravindan Anbalagan -X (vanbalag - WIPRO at Cisco) on
5/3/2007 9:53 PM:
> All right.
> Thanks Eric. 
> 
> Can you please confirm if this tar 1.16.1 has the bug fix for the (2 GB
> file stuff)

All cygwin applications built against cygwin1.dll 1.5.0 or newer
automatically have large file support (ie. pretty much any cygwin
application in the past 3 years).  That includes the cygwin distribution
of tar 1.16.1.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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