Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:10:37 -0500 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Vijaykumar Rajendra Rao cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: LARGE FILE SUPPORT for tar in cygwin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Vijaykumar Rajendra Rao wrote: > Hello, > > I am using cygwin version 1.3.6 on my windows 2003 server platform. I > heavily rely on the tar application provided by cygwin. I know that the > current version of tar that I am using is not able to read file sizez > greater than 2GB. Is there any newer version of tar which is available in > cygwin which supports file sizes greater than 2GB ??? I heavily rely on > this application to work... Please let me know if there is any other way > I can compile tar so that it can support file sizes greater than 2GB This list can not support a Cygwin version *that* out-of-date. The current Cygwin version is 1.5.10-3. Please use the setup program available at http://cygwin.com to update your installation. Once you have done that, I believe your problem will no longer exist. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/