From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 17 7:34:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from web20806.mail.yahoo.com (web20806.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6192937B408 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 07:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20020517143409.88009.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [217.162.228.46] by web20806.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 17 May 2002 07:34:09 PDT Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 07:34:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Erminio Baranzini Subject: Re: Tar broken for large files? To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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