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 Eric again for your quick response.
A last Q:
When you say "large file support", can you let us know the approximate
file size which can be handled.

Thanks
Vijeya

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From: Eric Blake [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 9:29 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 9:53 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.

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