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TAR FAILURE ON LARGE FILE (NT)
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: TAR FAILURE ON LARGE FILE (NT)
- From: colin dot mcgeoch at gro-scotland dot gsi dot gov dot uk
- Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:21:26 +0100
Hi,
When I run
?tar -cvf - sourcefilename>targetfilename? (in a DOS window) on a
file of size 4,415,176,704 bytes, the resulting TAR file only has size
120,217,600 bytes , although no error messages are given. In contrast, the same
command works successfully on a smaller file (eg 120,217,600 bytes).
The only archives reference I have found on tar/large files seems to relate to a
different problem on much smaller files(25MB). I have only recently started with
cygnwin, so apologies if I have nissed something obvious.
Is there a file size limit on using tar ?
Could tar be finding a byte which fools it into thinking it has reached the end
of the file when it hasn?t ?
Thanks
Colin
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