tar limitations?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Hector" == Hector Akamine <akamine@example.com> writes:

    Hector> but when the size of the file becomes about 2GB

Ie, 2^31 - 1 == MAXINT.  Get an Alpha or an Ultrasparc; fixing tar to
use size_t's throughout isn't worth the aggravation when you need a
>4GB file.  ;-)

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