Re: Tar problem

[Paul Eggert]

> From: "Kerry Menzel" <address@hidden>
> Importance: Normal

> I am trying to read a GNU Tar from a DLT 4000 tape drive. I get the
> following errors when reading the tar. I am able to read the archive with
> WinTar, so I am fairly confident the archive is ok. WinTar lists it as a GNU
> tar, so I think it's compatible?

> tar: Octal value `26247673204 ' is out of range for off_t

Is the archived file really 26247673204 (octal) bytes long?
If so, I'd guess Cygwin can't handle it.  That is more than 2 GB.

I don't use Cygwin, so for detailed Cygwin issues you'll have to write
to whoever did the Cygwin port of GNU tar.

If you are extracting a large file, you might try reading the archive
on a host that has good support for large files.  I suggest Solaris
2.6 or later, using GNU tar 1.13.18.  Bleeding-edge Linux might work
too.