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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net>
To: "Heitzso" <heitzso@bellsouth.net>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
References: <1043685509.15378.18.camel@zen.metamedia.com>
Subject: Re: noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:12:26 -0000
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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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