Re: tar file size limitation

2003-03-24 Thread Max Bowsher
: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:59:36 - > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: tar file size limitation > > > Pierre Gregoreski wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I'm trying to put on a tape a 16 GB file with C

Re: tar file size limitation

2003-03-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Pierre Gregoreski wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to put on a tape a 16 GB file with Cygwin tar on W2K. Cygwin does not support large files (2GB+). Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

tar file size limitation

2003-03-24 Thread Pierre Gregoreski
Hi, I'm trying to put on a tape a 16 GB file with Cygwin tar on W2K. A tar -cvf gives the hand after 2 seconds, and when I try to read the tape, tar -tvf produces the following error: tar: Archive value -55607296 is out of off_t range 0..2147483647 Is there a file size limitation with tar usag