02-14-2002
Linux has some ridiculously large max files size, in the hundreds of petabyte range, although I don't know what kernel / FS version that began with, so his system still may have the multi-gig limit.
It very well may be the issue of Posix tar vs. GNU tar, but I have tar'd files on a Linux machine, then ftp'd tem over to an HP-UX box, where they untarred just fine, and vice versa...
This may not be the *best* solution, but what about trying to dump the tape to a file? If you have some disk space, you could use dd, or even cat to dump it:
dd if=/dev/st0 of=/tmp/my_test.tar
If you can get data off of the tape, then it at least exists; if not, you may have a bad tape / drive. Hope this helps a little.
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cpan::perl::releases
CPAN::Perl::Releases(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation CPAN::Perl::Releases(3pm)
NAME
CPAN::Perl::Releases - Mapping Perl releases on CPAN to the location of the tarballs
VERSION
version 0.60
SYNOPSIS
use CPAN::Perl::Releases qw[perl_tarballs];
my $perl = '5.14.0';
my $hashref = perl_tarballs( $perl );
print "Location: ", $_, "
" for values %{ $hashref };
DESCRIPTION
CPAN::Perl::Releases is a module that contains the mappings of all "perl" releases that have been uploaded to CPAN to the "authors/id/"
path that the tarballs reside in.
This is static data, but newer versions of this module will be made available as new releases of "perl" are uploaded to CPAN.
FUNCTIONS
"perl_tarballs"
Takes one parameter, a "perl" version to search for. Returns an hashref on success or "undef" otherwise.
The returned hashref will have a key/value for each type of tarball. A key of "tar.gz" indicates the location of a gzipped tar file and
"tar.bz2" of a bzip2'd tar file. The values will be the relative path under "authors/id/" on CPAN where the indicated tarball will be
located.
perl_tarballs( '5.14.0' );
Returns a hashref like:
{
"tar.bz2" => "J/JE/JESSE/perl-5.14.0.tar.bz2",
"tar.gz" => "J/JE/JESSE/perl-5.14.0.tar.gz"
}
Not all "perl" releases had "tar.bz2", but only a "tar.gz".
SEE ALSO
<http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/>
<http://search.cpan.org/faq.html#Is_there_a_API?>
AUTHOR
Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Chris Williams.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
perl v5.14.2 2012-06-20 CPAN::Perl::Releases(3pm)