Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ? (the saga continues)

[" Raymond A. Ingles" <inglesra@frc.com>]

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Darxus wrote:

> I installed Windows (see what you made me do??).  
[...] 
> So unlike our beloved Unix utilities, winzip CAN seek past 2gb.  BUT it
> can't untar and unzip at the same time, and since I don't have over 5.2gb
> of fat32 storage space, I don't have enough room to extract the .tar that
> my .tgz contains to a temp dir.  So I still can't get my files.  (ARGH) 

 You can probably use WinZip to split home.tgz into two pieces. Then you
can do the partial extraction and hopefully get what you need. This is
probably what you'll have to do, short term.

 The suggestion of using dd is a good one, if you can defragment the file
so it's contiguous, and figure out the right block offset to use. It's a
bit more advanced, though.

 Or, you can wait until there's a fix in the 2.3 or 2.4 kernels... :-/

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles        (248) 377-7735         ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com

  "...Windows - which is often referred to as 'the French labor union
                     of software'..." - Dave Barry