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Re: noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Heitzso" <heitzso at bellsouth dot net>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:12:26 -0000
- Subject: Re: noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities
- References: <1043685509.15378.18.camel@zen.metamedia.com>
Heitzso wrote:
> I'm trying to work with a 22G (yes, gigabyte) and have
> noticed problems with
> ls (wrong file size, significant over report)
> tail (doesn't catch end of file)
> I don't know about other utilities, but I wanted to get
> these reported ....
>
> BTW, I greatly appreciate CYGWIN.
Well known issue. Cygwin does not support >2GB files.
Max.
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