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From: pcng@cad.jmrc.eecs.unsw.oz (Po Cheung Ng )
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: pax on 16 bit machine, tar filesize field
Message-ID: <399@limpet.cad.jmrc.eecs.unsw.oz>
Date: 2 Mar 89 21:52:28 GMT
References: <397@limpet.cad.jmrc.eecs.unsw.oz>
Organization: JMRC, School of Electrical Engineering, UNSW, Australia
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From article <397@limpet.cad.jmrc.eecs.unsw.oz>, by pcng@cad.jmrc.eecs.unsw.oz (Po Cheung Ng ):
> From article <228@libove.UUCP>, by root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove):
>> 
>> 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, because:
>> 
> 	Check the source, I couldn't remember exactly, but I did patch one
> public domain program to fix something like this. Locate where it prints
> the file size (probably occurs in more that one place), the format string
> should be %lu not %ld. I just checked my version of tar (linked to pax) and
> worked fine with file size up to ~70K.

Sorry, with Wietse Venema's article, now I remember the format string should be
%6ld (or I prefer %6lu), not %6d. It is because printf will treat the number
in the argument list as an int rather than long and mis-interpret the rest of
the arguments.

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