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From: colin DOT mcgeoch AT gro-scotland DOT gsi DOT gov DOT uk
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Message-ID: <80256931.0038E544.00@gro-scotland.gsi.gov.uk>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:21:26 +0100
Subject: TAR FAILURE ON LARGE FILE (NT)
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Hi,
When I run 
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?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 re=
late to a
different problem on much smaller files(25MB). I have only recently sta=
rted 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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