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"Aaron D. Gifford" wrote:
> 
> Okay, call me a nutcase, but I can't figure out why TAR always bails out
> at exactly 255328256 bytes written of a huge 4GB file I'm trying to dump
> to tape.  At first, it would quit with an error so I downloaded the latest
> GNU tar from GNU's FTP site, installed and compiled it.  It too bails out
> at the same spot, but without an error.
> 
> Any ideas anyone?

hi nutcase,

can the tape be out of space at that point?

hth,
roman

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