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Re: tar file size limitation
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: <lhall at rfk dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:50:41 -0000
- Subject: Re: tar file size limitation
- References: <184670-2200331241587868@M2W043.mail2web.com>
lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com wrote:
> I know work is progressing to change this but seems to me
> this is worthwhile fodder for the FAQ at this point.
You are right - however, I'm not the FAQ maintainer. Forwarding to the list.
Max.
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Max Bowsher maxb at ukf dot net
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:59:36 -0000
> To: pgregoreski at histor dot fr, cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Subject: Re: tar file size limitation
>
>
> 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.
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