Re: sharutils 4.3.71 mishandles large files

[Karl Eichwalder]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> This is an instance of a more general problem: sharutils mishandles
> files whose sizes do not fit in 'long'.  For example, on hosts with
> 32-bit long (a common case), uuencode, uudecode and shar cannot handle
> files larger than 2 GiB.

Thanks for your patch and the explanation!

> 2002-07-16  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       Add support for large files, e.g., files larger than 2 GiB on
>       hosts where 'long' is 32 bits wide.

I applied it for 4.3.73 (or later).

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