Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <410-220031127172042670@M2W041.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: lhall AT rfk DOT com X-Originating-IP: 209.113.174.244 From: "lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com" To: lhall AT rfk DOT com, heitzso AT bellsouth DOT net, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:20:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Jan 2003 17:20:42.0660 (UTC) FILETIME=[6BA28640:01C2C628] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h0RHLRJ22327 Sorry. Better said as 2GB files. If this caused any confusion for you, check the email archives for the definitive answer! ;-) Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:15:35 -0500 To: heitzso AT bellsouth DOT net, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities This is a good question for the email archives. It's been asked and answered more than once. Cygwin curently supports only 32 bit word sizes. The tools will have trouble with file sizes larger than 4GB. Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Heitzso heitzso AT bellsouth DOT net Date: 27 Jan 2003 11:38:29 -0500 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities I'm trying to work with a 22G (yes, gigabyte) and have noticed problems with ls (wrong file size, significant over report) tail (doesn't catch end of file) I don't know about other utilities, but I wanted to get these reported .... BTW, I greatly appreciate CYGWIN. -- Heitzso MetaMedia, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/