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[Jim Leonard]

der Mouse wrote:
> You raise a good point.  I'll have to add support to my tar for file
> sizes over 8G.

But then it won't be tar.  You'll be creating files that can only be extracted 
with your version.

The solution is an archive format that handles nearly ludicrous sizes, such as 
WinRK or RAR.  I am NOT ENDORSING THEM, just mentioning them for comparison. 
I am not aware of any such solution for *nix except maybe dump/restore to a 
file instead of a device (assuming the filesystem handles files over (unsigned 
DWORD) in length, something that isn't always obvious.
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