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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:24:29 +0100
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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Subject: Re: tar 1.13.19-1:  extraction of a .tar.gz file with -xvz ends with  "tar: Archive value 4178575360 is out of off_t range 0..2147483647"
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Hello Peter,

Thursday, February 21, 2002, 3:06:58 PM, you wrote:

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PFhd> Hi,

PFhd> I got a gzipped tar file that was created on a Solaris machine that contains
PFhd> the backup of a larger database.
PFhd> The file contains an item that is around 4 GBytes in size, the total size of

[ snip ]

PFhd> Or is it due to the lack of largefile support in the 1.3.6 version of
PFhd> cygwin?

Right - cygwin doesnt support files larger than 2 gigs.


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