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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:56:29 +0100
Message-ID: <9673-Thu20Jun2002155629+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
From: David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
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To: Eugene Cheng <eugene AT rentec DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: OpenSSH 3.1p1 scp problem with large files
In-Reply-To: <20020619213954.GC3297@jaguar.rentec.com>
References: <20020619213954 DOT GC3297 AT jaguar DOT rentec DOT com>

On Wednesday 19 Jun 02, Eugene Cheng writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I have problems scp'ing files >1GB from a Windows2000 box running OpenSSH
> 3.1p1 under Cygwin.  It copies some small percentage of the file and then
> dies with a "Lost connection".  The remote box is a SUN box running
> Solaris 8 with OpenSSH.  My test file is 9GB in size and I have gotten 670MB
> of the file copied at the most.  Could this be related to the df mis-reporting
> bug? 
> 
> The file copies ok to other systems, just not to this Cygwin box. I've tried
> multiple versions of OpenSSH without success.  

Cygwin does not support "large files" (> 2GB?).  Sorry.

Regards,
David


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