[Bug-tar] RE: Regarding the limitation of Tar.exe to tar a file greater than 1.99 GB

[Vijeya Aravindan Anbalagan -X \(vanbalag - WIPRO at Cisco\)]

Hi All,
 
I am Vijeya Aravindan working in India. I have a query regarding the GNU
Tar.exe in this e-mail and would very appreciate a response to this
e-mail.
We are using the Tar.exe of the following license in one of our
applications. We are using the Tar.exe with the following license:
 
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
later version.
 
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
 
GNU General Public License is available at
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php> ;
 
Documentation and Source code for TAR are available at:
 
http://www.gnu.org/directory/tar.html
<http://www.gnu.org/directory/tar.html> 
 
We are facing problems when we have a file of greater than 2.0 GB in the
directory which we are trying to TAR. Hence, we use a method to split
the file during the Tar process into chunks of 1 GB and during the
Extraction process, we join these splitted files. We feel that this is
not a very smooth process.
 
Can you please let us know if this has been fixed lately or any work
around to over come this issue?
Also please feel free to forward this email to the respective mailer
aliases/folks.
 
Thank you very much,
Vijeya