RE: tar 1.13.19-1: extraction of a .tar.gz file with -xvz ends with "tar: Archive value 4178575360 is out of off_t range 0..2147483647"

[Peter dot Frey at haufe dot de]

Title: RE: tar 1.13.19-1: extraction of a .tar.gz file with -xvz ends with "tar: Archive value 4178575360 is out of off_t range 0..2147483647"

> Right - cygwin doesnt support files larger than 2 gigs.
>

it would be nice to have this documented (at least in the FAQ)
I couldnt find it there (I did search both for "largefile" and "tar").

I am also told that the GNU version of tar is per default largefile aware
does cygwin have a different implementation?

tar --version at least suggest that it is the GNU version:

E:\Exchange\2002-02-21\cygwin>tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.19
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

Peter

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