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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers maximum tar file size? Post 302152677 by porter on Thursday 20th of December 2007 09:07:44 PM
Old 12-20-2007
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Originally Posted by Smiling Dragon
tar should happily just keep on spooling the files together without worrying about maximum sizes.
Individual files do have maximum file length due to the encoding, ie each files header tells you how long the contained file is.

Tar (file format) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Twelve bytes are used to encode the length in octal, so that is 12x3 bits, so 36 bits, hence 2^36 hence 68719476736-1 bytes.
 

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NAME
purple-url-handler - Python script to handle URL with purple SYNOPSIS
purple-url-handler [-URL] DESCRIPTION
Python script to handle URL with purple. OPTIONS
Usage: purple-url-handler URL Example: purple-url-handler "xmpp:romeo@montague.net?message" ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-im-client | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
purple-remote(1), purple-send(1), purple-send-async(1), attributes(5) purple-url-handler Manual, http://pidgin.im/ NOTES
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