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From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Subject: Re: Tar broken for large files?
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At 11:08 PM 5.17.2002 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>Erminio Baranzini <aredat@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Martin.Kaeske@Stud.TU-Ilmenau.DE wrote in message
> > news:<20020517094106.A29547_walnut.hh59.local@ns.sol.net>...
> > > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:59:54PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> > > > Its a *very* hacked-at version of GNU tar 1.11.2.
> > > > 
> > > > It should be hacked at some more to teach it about
> > > > 2g file sizes.
> > > 
> > > What about PR gnu/24903? Can this patch fix the problem?
> > 
> > Why do you not use star ?
>
>The tar in FreeBSD's base system should be fixed (either
>by patching it or by importing a newer gtar, or another
>tar version like star, if license permits and no features
>are lost).
>
>It is really a shame that FreeBSD's tar cannot handle
>files larger than 2 Gbyte, even though our filesystem
>could handle them long before Linux could.
>
>Just my 0.02 Euro.
>
>Regards
>   Oliver
>

I just switched to gtar and it uses the same switches as tar, so only need
a "g" to be added to my scripts (and different path to gtar). Works fine.
Never tried "star"... does it use the same switches too...???

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Jack L. Stone
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