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Re: tail of a large file
From: |
Matthew Smith |
Subject: |
Re: tail of a large file |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:28:37 -0500 |
Steve:
Did you download this as part of cygwin? If so, please redirect your
question to the cygwin mailing list.
http://www.cygwin.com
thanks,
-Matt Smith
cygwin textutils maintainer
>
> I don't know whether this is a known problem/limitation, or
> even whether these utilities are still supported, but at any
> rate: I'm find `tail' fails on large files on my Win2000
> machine, although `head' works . The threshhold seems to be
> about 2gig filesize
>
> It returns: `tail: [filename]: Invalid argument'
>
> `tail --help' doesn't show a version number for the utility,
> but I downloaded about six months ago
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Steve Wisdom, Minneapolis MN USA