Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!wzv!wietse
From: wietse@wzv.UUCP (Wietse Z. Venema)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: pax on 16 bit machine, tar filesize field
Message-ID: <231@wzv.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 89 21:13:45 GMT
References: <228@libove.UUCP>
Reply-To: wietse@wzv.UUCP (Wietse Z. Venema)
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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In article <228@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
>
>In "pax" on my 16 bit Xenix (80286) machine, it seems that the filesize
>field (in tar listings anyway, haven't tried cpio or pax format) is
>a 16 bit signed integer, 

Recently, I posted a patch in comp.sources.bugs for 16-bit systems
(change a %6d into %6ld).  With this patch, the problem you described
does not occur on my 80286 Microport SV/AT 2.3 system:

$ ls -li /usr/local/bin/pax /usr/local/bin/tar
 1374 -rwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys        51990 Feb 25 14:58 /usr/local/bin/pax
 1374 -rwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys        51990 Feb 25 14:58 /usr/local/bin/tar
$ ls -l /tmp/test[123]
-rwxr-xr-x   1 wietse   users      51990 Mar  1 21:03 /tmp/test1
-rwxr-xr-x   1 wietse   users      46254 Mar  1 21:03 /tmp/test2
-rwxr-xr-x   1 wietse   users      15374 Mar  1 21:04 /tmp/test3
$ /usr/local/bin/tar cvf /tmp/test.tar /tmp/test[132]
a /tmp/test1 102 Blocks
a /tmp/test2 91 Blocks
a /tmp/test3 31 Blocks
$ /usr/local/bin/tar tvf /tmp/test.tar
Tar: blocksize = 20
rwxr-xr-x 100/13  51990 Mar  1 21:03 1989 /tmp/test1
rwxr-xr-x 100/13  46254 Mar  1 21:03 1989 /tmp/test2
rwxr-xr-x 100/13  15374 Mar  1 21:04 1989 /tmp/test3
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