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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 20:50:51 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Bug report: ls reports a HUGE file size for a file over 2 Gb
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On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 03:22:42PM -0500, David Edwards wrote:
>"ls" reports a 2.6Gb file as being huge!  This is under an XP Pro, NTFS 
>partition with cygwin, 1.3.17-1 using ls from fileutils, 4.1-1.  The 
>following shows the incorrect size for fred3.zero from "ls" and the correct 
>size from a similar dir command.

Cygwin does not support files greater than 2GB.

cgf

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