On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Vijaykumar Rajendra Rao wrote: > Hello, > > I am using cygwin version 1.3.6 on my windows 2003 server platform. I > heavily rely on the tar application provided by cygwin. I know that the > current version of tar that I am using is not able to read file sizez > greater than 2GB. Is there any newer version of tar which is available in > cygwin which supports file sizes greater than 2GB ??? I heavily rely on > this application to work... Please let me know if there is any other way > I can compile tar so that it can support file sizes greater than 2GB
This list can not support a Cygwin version *that* out-of-date. The current Cygwin version is 1.5.10-3. Please use the setup program available at http://cygwin.com to update your installation. Once you have done that, I believe your problem will no longer exist. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/