Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 07:34:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Erminio Baranzini <aredat@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tar broken for large files? Message-ID: <20020517143409.88009.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com>
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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? > > Martin Why do you not use star ? It has no limits re file size (and some other very good features) : Star home: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html And read about large files : ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/README.largefiles. I use star since about 1994 (on NeXTSTEP and later on FreeBSD). --------------------------------------------------- Erminio BARANZINI, aredat@yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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