Thank you Eric again for your quick response. A last Q: When you say "large file support", can you let us know the approximate file size which can be handled.
Thanks Vijeya -----Original Message----- From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 9:29 AM To: Vijeya Aravindan Anbalagan -X (vanbalag - WIPRO at Cisco) Cc: Srinidhi Mandayam Chatrapathy -X (schatrap - WIPRO at Cisco); [email protected] Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] RE: Regarding the limitation of Tar.exe to tar a file greater than 1.99 GB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Vijeya Aravindan Anbalagan -X (vanbalag - WIPRO at Cisco) on 5/3/2007 9:53 PM: > All right. > Thanks Eric. > > Can you please confirm if this tar 1.16.1 has the bug fix for the (2 > GB file stuff) All cygwin applications built against cygwin1.dll 1.5.0 or newer automatically have large file support (ie. pretty much any cygwin application in the past 3 years). That includes the cygwin distribution of tar 1.16.1. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGOq+e84KuGfSFAYARAsXoAJ4iS0ISouPOVdrLsFidniQv7rEZWACfb+Ll 0QYPbsMiJYe0jOSCGNnKB1E= =c7HH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
