Re: tail of a large file

[Matthew Smith]

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