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18 May 2005

...
   If [zip] *is*
portable, it might seem a better choice for archives
 over tar, [...]  "Portable" is in the eye of the beholder.  Both formats
don't support
 sizes over 4 gigabytes (unsigned 32-bit dword) so I don't use them
 any more. 
The tar limit is actually 077777777777, which is 8 gig.  (That's not to
say that any particular *implementation* doesn't have a 4-gig limit,
only that the *format* limit is higher.)

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

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